Mott snow field
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 63 ° 20 ′ S , 57 ° 16 ′ W | |
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The Mott Snowfield is a large snowfield in the north of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . In the northeast of the Trinity Peninsula , it lies between the Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on February 12, 1964 after the British geodesist Peter Gray Mott (1913-1995), head of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955-1957), in whose target area this snowfield is located.
Web links
- Mott Snowfield in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mott Snowfield on geographic.org (English)