Antarctic glacier named after Glasgow as Cop26 begins

(Pierre Dutrieux)
(Pierre Dutrieux)

A glacier in Antarctica has been formally named after the city of Glasgow to mark its hosting of the Cop26 climate change conference.

The Glasgow Glacier is one of nine areas of fast-flowing ice in the Getz basin in the west of the continent to be named after locations of major climate treaties, conferences and reports.

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