Hamilton Ice Piedmont

Hamilton Ice Piedmont (74°30′S 110°18′W / 74.500°S 110.300°W / -74.500; -110.300Coordinates: 74°30′S 110°18′W / 74.500°S 110.300°W / -74.500; -110.300) is an ice piedmont, 8 nautical miles (15 km) wide, to the east of Wyatt Hill, Bear Peninsula, on the Walgreen Coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photographs, 1959–66, and was named in 1977 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Robert Hamilton, a meteorologist at the University of California, Davis, who was United States Antarctic Research Program Station Scientific Leader at South Pole Station, winter party 1975.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Hamilton Ice Piedmont". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-18.

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