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Not to be confused with Cook Ice Cap in the Kerguelen Islands or Cooke Glacier on the Fletcher Peninsula in Antarctica.
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Cook Glacier
Map showing the location of Cook Glacier
Map showing the location of Cook Glacier
Location in South Georgia Island
Location South Georgia
Coordinates 54°27′S 36°11′W / 54.450°S 36.183°W / -54.450; -36.183
Thickness unknown
Terminus St Andrews Bay
Status unknown

Cook Glacier (54°27′S 36°11′W / 54.450°S 36.183°W / -54.450; -36.183) is a glacier which flows in a north-northeasterly direction to Saint Andrews Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named by the German group of the International Polar Year Investigations based at nearby Moltke Harbour in 1882–83, for Captain James Cook.

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