Cugnot Piedmont Glacier
| Cugnot Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | Max. 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 38 ′ S , 58 ° 2 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Weddell Sea , Southern Ocean | |
The Cugnot Piedmont Glacier is a 24 km long and between 5 and 10 km wide foreland glacier in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends on the Trinity Peninsula from the Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and is bounded inland by the Louis Philippe Plateau .
Measurements carried out by the Falkland Island Dependencies Survey between 1960 and 1961 were used to map the glacier. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 12, 1964. It was named after the French engineer Nicholas Cugnot (1725-1804), who built the first steam car in 1769 .
Web links
- Cugnot Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cugnot Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)