Forster Ice Piedmont (69°22′S 67°0′W / 69.367°S 67.000°W) is an ice piedmont lying landward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of Airy, Seller, Fleming and Prospect Glaciers and is about 25 miles (40 km) long from north to south and 12 miles (20 km) wide.
The feature was first surveyed from the ground by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936–37, and again in more detail by Peter D. Forster and P. Gibbs of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1958. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Forster, a surveyor at Stonington Island in 1958 and at Horseshoe Island in 1960.[1]
Further reading edit
- C. S. M. Doake, ICE-SHELF STABILITY Archived 2021-04-27 at the Wayback Machine, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, doi:10.1006/rwos.2001.0005
External links edit
- Forster Ice Piedmont on USGS website
- Forster Ice Piedmont on SCAR website
References edit
This article incorporates public domain material from "Forster Ice Piedmont". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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