Almirante Ice Fringe () is a narrow
ice piedmont
An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."
Further reading
* Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, editors, 'Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers'', P 49
References
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bordering the southwest side of
Andvord Bay
Andvord Bay () is a bay-like fjord, long and wide, which lies between Beneden Head and Duthiers Point along the west coast of Graham Land.
It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by ...
on
Danco Coast
The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it f ...
,
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that 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 ...
,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. Named by the
Polish Antarctic Expedition The Polish Antarctic Expedition to the A. B. Dobrowolski Polar Station was conducted by a team of doctors, geophysicists, and geomorphologists between 1978 and 1979. It was sponsored by the Polish Academy of Sciences. This was the third expedition ...
, about 1995, after the
Almirante Brown Antarctic Base
Brown Station ( es, Estación Científica Almirante Brown, or more often ''Base Brown'' or ''Estación Brown'') is an Argentine Antarctic base and scientific research station named after Admiral William Brown, the father of the Argentine Nav ...
on nearby
Coughtrey Peninsula Coughtrey Peninsula () is a small hook-shaped peninsula at the north side of the entrance to Skontorp Cove, Paradise Harbor, on the west coast of Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joi ...
,
Paradise Harbor
Paradise Harbour, also known as Paradise Bay, is a wide embayment behind Lemaire and Bryde Islands in Antarctica, indenting the west coast of Graham Land between Duthiers and Leniz Points. The name was first applied by whalers operating in t ...
.
See also
*
List of Antarctic expeditions
This list of Antarctic expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was no ...
References
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Ice piedmonts of Graham Land
Poland and the Antarctic
Danco Coast
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