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Marr Ice Piedmont is a large ice piedmont ("ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains"),[1] which covers the north-western half of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.
This feature was presumably first seen by a German expedition under Eduard Dallmann of 1873–74, and was first roughly surveyed by the French Antarctic Expeditions of 1903–05 and 1908–10, both led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot.
The feature was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after the British marine biologist James W.S. Marr, first commander of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1943–45, and leader of the base at nearby Port Lockroy. Marr was also a member of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, 1929–31, and of Shackleton's expedition of 1921–22.
References
- ↑ 'The Crossing of Antarctica' by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary (Glossary, page 296; Cassell, 1958)
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Marr Ice Piedmont