Mozart Piedmont Glacier
| Mozart Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 96 km | |
| width | Max. 24 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 53 ′ S , 71 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Mozart Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier about 96 km long and a maximum of 24 km wide on the west coast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It lies in front of Debussy Heights and extends from the western flank of the Lassus Mountains in the vicinity of Mount Morley to the Gilbert Glacier in the vicinity of Giovanni Peak .
Aerial photographs that were taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) under the direction of the American polar explorer Finn Ronne were used by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960 for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the glacier in 1977 after the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791).
Web links
- Mozart Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mozart Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)