Forster Ice Piedmont
Template:Short description Forster Ice Piedmont (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) 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 Script error: No such module "convert". long from north to south and Script error: No such module "convert". 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
- C. S. M. Doake, ICE-SHELF STABILITY Template:Webarchive, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, doi:10.1006/rwos.2001.0005
External links
- Forster Ice Piedmont on USGS website
- Forster Ice Piedmont on SCAR website
References
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