Ford Piedmont Glacier
| Ford Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Queen Elizabeth Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Pensacola Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 82 ° 10 ′ S , 50 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf | |
 Davis Valley map sheet from 1968 (new edition 1988) with the central part of the Ford Ice Piedmont in the north |
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The Ford Piedmont Glacier is a large foreland glacier in Queen Elizabeth Land, West Antarctica . In the Pensacola Mountains, it lies north of the Dufek Massif and the Forrestal Range between the lower sections of the Foundation Ice Stream and the Support Force Glacier .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him after the American geologist Arthur B. Ford (* 1932), who worked together with the cartographer Peter Frank Bermel for the United States Geological Survey from 1960 to 1961 in the Thiel Mountains and in later years has been involved in surveying the Lassiter Coast and the Pensacola Mountains.
Web links
- Ford Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ford Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)