Forster Ice Piedmont ( 69°22′S 67°0′W / 69.367°S 67.000°W / -69.367; -67.000 ) 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.
4-875: 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. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Forster Ice Piedmont" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Fallières Coast location article
8-527: A combination of traditional and modern practices in Antarctic exploration, using both dog teams and motor sledges as well as a single-engine de Havilland Fox Moth aircraft for exploration. Transportation to the Antarctic was in an elderly three-masted sailing ship christened the Penola , which had an unreliable auxiliary engine. Additional supplies were brought on the ship Discovery II . The expedition
12-474: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British Graham Land Expedition The British Graham Land expedition ( BGLE ) was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 and 1937. Under the leadership of John Rymill , the expedition spent two years in the Antarctic. The expedition determined that Graham Land was a peninsula. The expedition used
16-578: Was one of the last privately sponsored Antarctic missions, with only part of the cost covered by the UK government. Although the expedition had a very small budget, it was successful in its scientific objectives. Air survey photography and mapping was carried out for 1000 miles (1600 km) of the Graham Land coast. All sixteen members of the landing party received the Polar Medal . The participants of
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