Stuhlinger Piedmont Glacier
| Stuhlinger Piedmont Glacier | ||
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 Topographic map with the Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont (top left) |
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Transantarctic Mountains | |
| length | 15 km | |
| width | Max. 15 km | |
| Coordinates | 70 ° 22 ′ S , 162 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Somow Lake , Rennick Bay and Ob 'Bay | |
The Stuhlinger Piedmont Glacier is an approximately 225 square kilometers large foreland glacier on the Oates coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . North of the Bowers Mountains, it lies between the lower sections of the Gannutz and Barber glaciers .
The area was from the United States Geological Survey and using aerial photographs of the United States Navy charted from 1960 to 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the glacier in 1970 after Ernst Stuhlinger (1913-2008), German-American rocket engineer at NASA , who was a member of the National Science Foundation's advisory committee for the scientific investigation program in the Antarctic.
Web links
- Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)