Mercator Ice Piedmont

Mercator Ice Piedmont (68°37′S 65°30′W / 68.617°S 65.5°W / -68.617; -65.5) is a gently-sloping ice piedmont at the head of Mobiloil Inlet, formed by the confluence of the Gibbs, Lammers, Cole and Weyerhaeuser Glaciers in eastern Graham Land. The feature was first photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth in November 1935, and was plotted from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg as the lower end of a "major valley depression" along the coast. First seen from the ground by Finn Ronne and C.R. Eklund of United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41, which also obtained air photos. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Gerardus Mercator (1512–94), Flemish mathematician and geographer, originator of the map projection which bears his name, 1568.

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