Handel Ice Piedmont
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Handel Ice Piedmont is a large ice piedmont
lying north and west of Colbert Mountains
, between Haydn Inlet
and Schubert Inlet
on the West-central coast of Alexander Island
. Apparently first seen from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940 but not separately mapped. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
(RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for George Frederick Handel (1685–1759), German composer.
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...
lying north and west of Colbert Mountains
Colbert Mountains
The Colbert Mountains are an isolated mountain mass with several rounded snow-covered summits, the highest at , overlooking Handel Ice Piedmont between Haydn Inlet and Schubert Inlet in the west central part of Alexander Island...
, between Haydn Inlet
Haydn Inlet
Haydn Inlet is an ice-filled inlet indenting the west coast of Alexander Island between Mozart Ice Piedmont and Handel Ice Piedmont. It is 27 nautical miles long and 12 nautical miles wide at the mouth, narrowing toward the head. First seen from the air and roughly mapped by the United States...
and Schubert Inlet
Schubert Inlet
Schubert Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, 14 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, indenting the west coast of Alexander Island between the Colbert and Walton Mountains. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands...
on the West-central coast of Alexander Island
Alexander Island
Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...
. Apparently first seen from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940 but not separately mapped. First mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition
The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...
(RARE), 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for George Frederick Handel (1685–1759), German composer.