Bongrain Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Bongrain Ice Piedmont (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Piedmont (12)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Ice piedmont, 27 mi long in a NE-SW direction and 12 mi wide in its widest part, occupying the NW coastal area of Alexander Island. First seen from a distance and roughly surveyed by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot. Photographed from the air by the BGLE on Aug. 15, 1936, and roughly mapped from these photos. Named by the UK-APC in 1954 for Maurice Bongrain, surveyor of the FrAE, 1908-10, who was responsible for the first map of this coast.
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