The Cook Ice Cap, also called Cook Glacier, is a large ice cap on the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories, in the far southern Indian Ocean. Centered near 49 degrees south, it covers roughly 400 square kilometers and reaches an average thickness of about 400 meters, with some sixty outlet glaciers radiating from its central ice mass. The ice cap has been retreating, shrinking from about 500 square kilometers in 1963 to its present extent. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Protected StatusNational Park or Reserve 1 Protected StatusUNESCO World Heritage Site 1 Protected Status Connections
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1. UNEP-WCMC and IUCN: Protected areas at the coordinates of Cook Ice Cap, World Database on Protected Areas
UNEP-WCMC and IUCNname_eng and desig_eng
"name_eng": "Réserve Naturelle Nationale des Terres Australes Française", "desig_eng": "Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)"
desig_eng, designation 60 of the point search
"name_eng": "Terres Australes Françaises", "desig_eng": "National Nature Reserve"
desig_eng, designation 61 of the point search
"name_eng": "French Austral Lands and Seas", "desig_eng": "World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)"
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The Cook Ice Cap or Cook Glacier (French: Calotte Glaciaire Cook or Glacier Cook) is a large ice cap in the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories zone of the far Southern Indian Ocean.
In Discipline: Glaciology, Lead paragraph
The Cook Ice Cap or Cook Glacier (French: Calotte Glaciaire Cook or Glacier Cook) is a large ice cap in the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories zone of the far Southern Indian Ocean.
Caused By: Glaciation, Lead paragraph
The Cook Ice Cap or Cook Glacier (French: Calotte Glaciaire Cook or Glacier Cook) is a large ice cap in the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories zone of the far Southern Indian Ocean.
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