Mercury Glacier (Cook Mountains)

Mercury Glacier (79°34′S 157°17′E) is a wide glacier flowing south from the slopes of Mount Hughes in the Cook Mountains of Antarctica. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Mercury, a god in Greek mythology, in association with other names in this area.[1]

For another glacier in Antarctica with this name, see Mercury Glacier (Alexander Island).

References
  1. "Mercury Glacier". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-09-19.

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