Bertrand Piedmont Glacier

Bertrand Piedmont Glacier
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location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
length	17.5 km
width	Max. 8 kilometers
Coordinates	68 ° 31 ′ S , 67 ° 5 ′ W Coordinates: 68 ° 31 ′ S , 67 ° 5 ′ W
drainage	Marguerite Bay

The Bertrand Piedmont Glacier is a 17.5 km long and between 5 and 8 km wide foreland glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Rymill Bay in the north and Mikkelsen Bay in the south. It is bounded to the southeast by the Pavie Ridge and to the northeast by the Black Thumb .

It was measured in 1936 by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill and again in 1948 and 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named him in 1955 after the American geographer and polar historian Kenneth J. Bertrand (1910-1978), lecturer at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC Bertrand was a member of the Advisory Committee from 1947 to 1973 Antarctic Names , which he chaired from 1962 to 1973.

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