Roberts Piedmont Glacier
| Roberts Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| length | 30 km | |
| width | Max. 25 km | |
| Coordinates | 68 ° 58 ′ S , 70 ° 29 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Marguerite Bay | |
The Roberts Piedmont Glacier is a 30 km long and 25 km wide foreland glacier in the northeast of the West Antarctic Alexander I Island . It is north and northwest of Mount Calais .
Participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot sighted it for the first time and made a rough mapping. Aerial photos from August 15, 1936 of the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill were used for further mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955. It was named after the British ornithologist Brian Birley Roberts (1913–1978), a participant in the British Graham Land Expedition and secretary of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee from 1945 to 1974.
Web links
- Roberts Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roberts Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)