Widmark Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Widmark Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Piedmont
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
covering a large part of the peninsula between Holtedahl Bay, Graham Coast, and Darbel Bay, Loubet Coast, and rising to c.600m, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57; in association with the names of pioneers in the prevention of snow-blindness grouped in this area, named after Erik John Widwark (1850-1909), Swedish opthalmologist and pioneer of research into the etiology and treatment of snow-blindness (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961).
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