Evans Piedmont Glacier
| Evans Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 44 ′ S , 162 ° 40 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
 Franklin Island map sheet from 1962, Evans Piedmont Glacier in the southwest quarter of the map |
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The Evans Piedmont Glacier is a broad sheet of ice shelves on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located between Tripp Island and Cape Archer .
It was first circled in October 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party as part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958). It is named after the British seaman Edgar Evans (1876-1912), a member of the five-man South Pole team around Robert Falcon Scott during the Terra Nova Expedition (1911-1913).
Web links
- Evans Piedmont Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Evans Piedmont Glacier on geographic.org (English)