Heirtzler Piedmont Glacier

Heirtzler Piedmont Glacier
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location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
length	11 km
Coordinates	72 ° 36 ′ S , 61 ° 22 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 36 ′ S , 61 ° 22 ′ W
drainage	Violante Inlet

The Heirtzler Piedmont Glacier is a low foreland glacier with a triangular base and an extension of 11 km on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the west bank of Violante Inlet and north of the Maury Glacier .

The discovery and first aerial photographs go back to scientists of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941) on December 30, 1940. The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1966 to 1969. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1994 after the US geophysicist James Ransom Heirtzler (* 1925), from 1969 to 1986 head scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic institution and from 1986 Head of the geophysical department of the Goddard Space Flight Center of NASA .

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