Fuchs Piedmont Glacier
| Fuchs Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 110 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 14 ′ S , 68 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Fuchs Piedmont Glacier is a 110 km long foreland glacier that covers the entire west coast of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island in a north-east-south-west extent .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped it in 1909. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) named it after the British polar explorer Vivian Fuchs (1911–1999), who from 1948 to 1949 headed the FIDS station on Stonington Island .
Web links
- Fuchs Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fuchs Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)