Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Location of Trinity Peninsula.

Cugnot Ice Piedmont (63°38′S 58°10′W / 63.633°S 58.167°W / -63.633; -58.167) is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. Mapped from surveys by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) (1960–61). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Nicolas J. Cugnot (1725–1804), French military engineer who designed and built the first full-sized vehicle propelled by its own engine (steam), in 1769.

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• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cugnot Ice Piedmont" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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