Forster Piedmont Glacier
| Forster Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 40 km | |
| width | Max. 20 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 22 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wordie Bay | |
The Forster-Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier with a length of about 40 km and a width of about 20 km in a bay in the southern part of the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the southeast section of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell , the Forster-Piedmont Glacier, together with two other glaciers, formed the now-disbanded Wordie Ice Shelf until the 1990s . It is formed by the confluence of the Airy , Seller , Fleming and Prospect glaciers .
It was first measured by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) and again in 1958 by members of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1962 after the geodesist Peter Derek Forster (1935-1996) from FIDS, who had participated in the survey of Stonington Island (1958) and Horseshoe Island (1960).
Web links
- Forster Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Forster Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)