Stefan Ice Piedmont
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Stefan Ice Piedmont is a small ice piedmont at the northwest extremity of Pernik Peninsula
, Loubet Coast in Graham Land
, overlying the coast between Cape Rey
and Holdfast Point
. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Josef Stefan (1835–1893), Austrian physicist who in 1889 pioneered the theory of heat flow in a freezing ice layer and first used it to calculate rates of sea ice growth in the Arctic.
Pernik Peninsula
Pernik Peninsula is the ice-covered peninsula projecting 40 km in northwest direction from Loubet Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula...
, Loubet Coast in Graham Land
Graham Land
Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...
, overlying the coast between Cape Rey
Cape Rey
Cape Rey is a dark rocky cape between the southwest side of Darbel Bay and the northeast side of Lallemand Fjord, on the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot, and named by him for Lieutenant Joseph J. Rey, French Navy, meteorologist of...
and Holdfast Point
Holdfast Point
Holdfast Point is a point at the east side of Lallemand Fjord, about 12 nautical miles southwest of Cape Rey, Graham Land. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition...
. Mapped from air photos taken by Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) (1956–57). Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Josef Stefan (1835–1893), Austrian physicist who in 1889 pioneered the theory of heat flow in a freezing ice layer and first used it to calculate rates of sea ice growth in the Arctic.