Gawn Piedmont Glacier
| Gawn Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 79 ° 58 ′ S , 160 ° 12 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Ice Shelf | |
The Gawn Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier in the Ross Dependency of Antarctica . On the Hillary Coast , it occupies the plain adjacent to the Ross Ice Shelf between the mouths of the Darwin and Byrd glaciers .
The so-called Darwin Glacier Team of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) named him after John Edward Gawn (* 1919), who worked as a radio operator at Scott Base during the research trip .
Web links
- Gawn Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Gawn Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)