Handel Piedmont Glacier
| Handel Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 35 ′ S , 70 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| drainage | George VI Sound | |
The Handel Piedmont Glacier is a large foreland glacier on the west-central coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It lies north and west of the Colbert Mountains between Haydn Inlet and Schubert Inlet .
It was first spotted during an overflight during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) in 1940. The first mapping was carried out by the British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 using aerial photographs taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947 –1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1961 after the German-British composer Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759).
Web links
- Trade Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Handel Ice Piedmont on geographic.org