Hamilton Piedmont Glacier
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 Topographic map of the Bear Peninsula with the Hamilton Piedmont Glacier (center) |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| width | Max. 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 30 ′ S , 110 ° 18 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Amundsen Lake | |
The Hamilton-Piedmont Glacier is a 13 km wide foreland glaciers at the Walgreen Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . It is east of Wyatt Hill on the Bear Peninsula .
The United States Geological Survey mapped it based on its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1959 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1977 after the American meteorologist Robert Hamilton of the University of California, Davis , the served as Scientific Director of the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in the United States Antarctic Research Program in the Antarctic winter of 1975 .
Web links
- Hamilton Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamilton Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)