Mozart Ice Piedmont

Mozart Ice Piedmont (70°0′S 71°0′W) is an ice piedmont, 60 nautical miles (110 km) long-running in a NW-SE direction and 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide in its widest part, on the west coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) in 1947, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), famous Austrian composer. Some landforms within this area are named in association with the Mozart Ice Piedmont such as Figaro Nunatak, along with a few other landforms.

See also

• Bongrain Ice Piedmont
• Handel Ice Piedmont

Further reading

• M. Braun, A. Humbert, and A. Moll, Changes of Wilkins Ice Shelf over the past 15 years and inferences on its stability, The Cryosphere, 3, 41–56, 2009 www.the-cryosphere.net/3/41/2009/

External links

• Mozart Ice Piedmont on USGS website
• Mozart Ice Piedmont on SCAR website
• Mozart Ice Piedmont on geographic.org

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Mozart Ice Piedmont". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.