Bertrand Ice Piedmont

Bertrand Ice Piedmont

Bertrand Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about 11 miles (18 km) long and from 3 to 5 miles (5 to 8 km) wide, lying between Rymill Bay and Mikkelsen Bay on the Fallieres Coast of Graham Land.

Bertrand Ice Piedmont is bounded on the southeast side by Pavie Ridge and on the northeast side by Black Thumb. Bertrand Ice Piedmont was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Riddoch Rymill, and resurveyed in 1948-1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Bertrand Ice Piedmont was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) after Kenneth J. Bertrand (1910-1978), Professor of Geography, 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); 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.

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