Mercator Piedmont Glacier
| Mercator Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 36 ′ S , 65 ° 37 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Larsen Ice Shelf , Weddell Sea | |
The Mercator Piedmont Glacier is a gently sloping foreland glacier on the Bowman Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies at the head end of Mobiloil Inlet and is fed by the Gibbs , Lammers and Weyerhaeuser glaciers .
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth photographed him during an overflight in November 1935. The resulting aerial photographs were used by the American cartographer WLG Joerg for an initial mapping. The two US polar explorers Finn Ronne and Carl R. Eklund (1909–1962) visited the glacier by land as part of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys in 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1962 after the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator (1512–1594), who in 1568 developed the projection method named after him to depict the earth's surface at the correct angle.
Web links
- Mercator Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mercator Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)