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Mountains and glaciers.
Date Taken:
January 6, 2011
Photograph By:
Kelly Speelman, NSF
License Type:
Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Cotton Glacier flows eastward between Sperm Bluff and Queer Mountain in Victoria Land. It was named by G. Taylor of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910-13) for professor Leslie A. Cotton of the Sydney University geology department. Sperm Bluff was named by members of the same expedition because the north face of the bluff suggests the blunt head of a sperm whale. Queer Mountain was also named by the same men because it has nearly every rock type of the area embedded in it, including granite, sandstone and coal beds. There is an identical photo to this one in the Photo Library with labels on it.

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