Cugnot Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont

Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."-References:*The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary Cassell, London, 1958...

 in Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula

Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...

, about 15 nautical miles (28 km) long and between 3 and 6 nautical miles (11 km) wide, extending from Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier

Russell East Glacier is a glacier, 6 nautical miles long and 3 nautical miles wide, which lies at the north end of Detroit Plateau and flows from Mount Canicula eastward into Prince Gustav Channel on the south side of Trinity Peninsula...

 to Eyrie Bay

Eyrie Bay

Eyrie Bay is a bay, 2.5 miles wide at its mouth and extending 3 miles inland, lying north of Jade Point, Trinity Peninsula. So named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee because of the proximity to Eagle Island.-Map:...

 and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau

Louis Philippe Plateau

Louis Philippe Plateau is a plateau, about 11 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, which rises to 1,370 m and occupies the central part of Trinity Peninsula between Russell West Glacier and Windy Gap...

. 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.

Map

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