Cook Ice Shelf (68°40′S 152°30′E) is an ice shelf about 55 miles wide, occupying a deep recession of the coastline between Cape Freshfield and Cape Hudson. This ice shelf was called a bay by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-14, under Douglas Mawson, who named it for Joseph Cook, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1914. The generic term has been amended, as the bay is permanently filled by an ice shelf. Newly constructed Main Base Hut The Australasian Antarctic Expedition was an Australian scientific team that expored part of Antarctica between 1911 and 1914. ... 1914 portrait Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS (May 5, 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian Antarctic explorer and geologist. ... Sir Joseph Cook GCMG PC (7 December 1860 – 30 July 1947), Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. ...

This article is based on a United States Geological Survey gazetteer.