Wormald Piedmont Glacier
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| location | Adelaide Island ( West Antarctica ) | |
| length | 110 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 29 ′ S , 68 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Laubeuf Fjord | |
The Wormald Piedmont Glacier is a 110 km long foreland glacier on Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It occupies the eastern part of the Wright Peninsula between Rothera Point and Sighing Peak .
Scientists from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it between 1961 and 1962, those of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in 1976. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after Steven Wormald (* 1946), BAS weather observer at Adelaide Station from 1969 to 1970, assistant at the station on Stonington Island from 1970 to 1971, and field research manager from 1973 to 1977.
Web links
- Wormald Ice Piedmont in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wormald Ice Piedmont on geographic.org (English)