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[[File: | [[File:Ferrero Bay Map.jpg|400px|thumb|Map showing Ferrero Bay and the Cosgrove Ice Shelf]] | ||
The '''Cosgrove Ice Shelf''' is a 35-mile (56 km) long by 25-mile (40 km) wide [[ice-shelf|ice shelf]], occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between the [[King Peninsula]] and the [[Canisteo Peninsula]] in [[Westarctica]]. | The '''Cosgrove Ice Shelf''' is a 35-mile (56 km) long by 25-mile (40 km) wide [[ice-shelf|ice shelf]], occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between the [[King Peninsula]] and the [[Canisteo Peninsula]] in [[Westarctica]]'s [[Ferrero Bay]]. | ||
==Discovery and name== | ==Discovery and name== | ||
Revision as of 14:11, 21 June 2024
The Cosgrove Ice Shelf is a 35-mile (56 km) long by 25-mile (40 km) wide ice shelf, occupying the inner (east) part of the embayment between the King Peninsula and the Canisteo Peninsula in Westarctica's Ferrero Bay.
Discovery and name
It was mapped from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Jerome R. Cosgrove, U.S. Navy Reserve, assistant communications officer on the staff of the Commander, U.S. Navy Support Force, Antarctica, during U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze, 1967 and 1968.