Marr Piedmont Glacier
| Marr Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 31 ′ S , 63 ° 44 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Southern ocean | |
The Marr Piedmont Glacier is a large foreland glacier that occupies the northwest half of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago .
Its discoverer is probably the German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann during his Antarctic expedition on the Groenland (1873–1874). The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out rough measurements on the Fourth (1903–1905) and Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1954 after the British marine biologist and polar explorer James Marr (1902-1965).
Web links
- Marr Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Marr Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)