Wagner Piedmont Glacier
| Wagner Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | Rothschild Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| length | 15 km | |
| width | ⌀ 6 km | |
| Coordinates | 69 ° 38 ′ S , 72 ° 35 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bellingshausen lake | |
The Wagner-Piedmont-Glacier is a northwest-southeastern extension 15 km long and 6 km wide foreland glacier , which covers the southwest part of the Antarctic Rothschild Island off the northwest coast of the Alexander-I-Island .
Scientists from the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) discovered it and photographed it from the air. Aerial photographs of the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948) were used in 1960 by the British geographer Derek Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the foreland glacier in 1961 after the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883).
Web links
- Wagner Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wagner Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)