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Marr Ice Piedmont (64°33′S 63°40′W / 64.55°S 63.667°W) is a large ice piedmont which covers the northwest half of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. This feature was presumably first seen by a German expedition under Dallmann, 1873–74, and was first roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, both under Charcot. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for James W.S. Marr, British marine biologist, who was first commander of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), 1943–45, and leader of the base at nearby Port Lockroy. Marr was also a member of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, 1929–31, and Shackleton's expedition of 1921-22.
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