Oates Piedmont Glacier
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 Map of the Scott coast from 1962 with the Oates-Piedmont glacier in the middle of the western edge of the map between Nordenskjöld ice tongue and Fry glacier |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 76 ° 25 ′ S , 162 ° 25 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Ross Sea | |
The Oates Piedmont Glacier is a foreland glacier on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It occupies the area east of the Kirkwood Range between the Fry Glacier and the Mawson Glacier .
He was in 1957 by The New Zealand Group of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1955-1958) carried out surveys in 1957 and named him. Namesake is the British polar explorer Lawrence Oates (1880-1912), who died on the march back from the South Pole to the base camp during the Terra Nova Expedition (1911-1912) together with the expedition leader Robert Falcon Scott and three other companions.
Web links
- Oates Piedmont Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oates Piedmont Glacier on geographic.org (English)