Fenwick Piedmont Glacier
| Fenwick Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 10 km | |
| width | Max. 4 km | |
| Coordinates | 71 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 170 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
The Fenwick Piedmont Glacier is a 10 km long and 4 km wide foreland glacier on the Borchgrevink coast in the north of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies on the east side of the Adare Peninsula and is fed by numerous glaciers in the area between the Downshire cliffs and Cape McCormick .
The New Zealand Geographic Board named him in 2005 after Robert Fenwick, from 2000 chairman of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust , a foundation for the preservation of historic sites in the Antarctic.
Web links
- Fenwick Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fenwick Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)