Gavin Piedmont Glacier
| Gavin Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 24 km | |
| width | ⌀ 5 km; Max. 10 km | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 44 ′ S , 59 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Gavin Piedmont Glacier is a 24 km long and between 5 and 10 km wide foreland glacier in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It extends on the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula from Charcot Bay to the Russell West Glacier .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped him based on surveys he carried out between 1960 and 1961. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier on February 12, 1964 after the British pilot Christopher Brathwaite Gavin-Robinson (1911-1993), participant of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1956-1957).
Web links
- Gavin Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gavin Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)