Bertrand Ice Piedmont

Bertrand Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about 20 kilometres (11 nmi) long and from 6 to 9 kilometres (3 to 5 nmi) wide, lying between Rymill Bay and Mikkelsen Bay on the Fallières Coast of Graham Land.

Bertrand Ice Piedmont is bounded on the southeast side by Pavie Ridge and on the northeast side by Black Thumb. It was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Riddoch Rymill, and resurveyed in 1948–1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee after Kenneth J. Bertrand (1910–1978), Professor of Geography, at The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. A geomorphologist and Antarctic historian, Bertrand was a member of the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1947–1973), and chairman 1962–1973. His Americans in Antarctica, 1775–1948, published in 1971, is the most extensive and authoritative account of American involvement in the Antarctic.

See also

• List of glaciers

Further reading

• Defense Mapping Agency 1992, Sailing Directions (planning Guide) and (enroute) for Antarctica, P 152

• Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers, Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940–2005, USGS

• Peter Gibbs, A memoir of time in the Antarctic 1956-59

External links

• Bertrand Ice Piedmont on USGS website
• Bertrand Ice Piedmont on AADC website
• Bertrand Ice Piedmont on SCAR website

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Bertrand Ice Piedmont". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.