Mott Snowfield () is a snowfield in the northeast of

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the

Antarctic Sound The Antarctic Sound is a body of water about long and from wide, separating the Joinville Island group from the northeast end of the Antarctic Peninsula. The sound was named by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld for the ...

Location

Mott Snowfield is in

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 ...

in the north of the

, which forms the tip of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It is southeast of the

Duroch Islands The Duroch Islands () are a group of islands and rocks which extend over an area of about , centred about off Cape Legoupil on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica. The islands are close to Chile's Base General Bernardo O'Higgins R ...

and Schmidt Peninsula, south of Coupvent Point and Prime Head, southwest of Mount Bransfield, northwest of

Hope Bay Hope Bay may refer to: * Hope Bay, Antarctica Hope Bay (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Bahía Esperanza'') () is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. Location Hope Bay is in Graham ...

, and northeast of Laclavère Plateau. Named features include Fidase Peak, Magnet Hill and Camel Nunataks.

Name

Mott Snowfield was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) for Peter G. Mott, leader of the

Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies and the Antarctic Peninsula which took place in the 1955–56 and 1956–57 southern summers. Funded by the Colonial ...

(FIDASE), 1955–57.

Features

Fidase Peak

. A distinctive peak east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to high at the west end of Mott Snowfield. FIDASE represents the initial letters of the

(1955-57) led by P.O. Mott.

Magnet Hill

. A small, distinctive snow-covered hill rising from Mott Snowfield, northeast of Camel Nunataks. The hill was the site of magnetometer and topographical survey stations and was named by the British geophysical and survey party which worked in this area in 1959.

Camel Nunataks

. Two similar rock nunataks rising to high, apart and north of

View Point View Point () is 150m long eastern tip of a promontory, on Antarctica, forming the west side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula, on the northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula. Situated 6.79 km east of Sk ...

, Trinity Peninsula. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS) personnel at

since about 1959.

Yagodina Knoll

The ice-covered hill rising to high at the northeast extremity of Trinity Peninsula. Situated south-southeast of Siffrey Point, west-southwest of Mount Bransfield, northwest of Koerner Rock and east-northeast of Fidase Peak. Surmounting Mott Snowfield to the southwest. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Yagodina in Southern Bulgaria.

References

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