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Warren Ice Piedmont () is an
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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on the
Rymill Coast Rymill Coast is that portion of the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Jeremy and Buttress Nunataks. It runs northward from English Coast and east of Alexander Island across George VI Sound, encompassing the Batterbee Mountains. It ...
of
Palmer Land Palmer Land () is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica that lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the Advisory Committee on Antarctic N ...
, lying westward of
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and bounded north and south by
Terminus Nunatak Terminus Nunatak () is a conspicuous nunatak, 670 m, standing between Eureka and Riley Glaciers and 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) inland from George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land. This nunatak was first photographed from the air o ...
and
Riley Glacier Riley Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier, 14 nautical miles (26 km) long and 17 nautical miles (31 km) wide, flowing westward from the west side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound between the Traverse Mountains and Mount Dixey. F ...
, the latter once considered to include this ice piedmont. The feature was photographed from the air by the
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, 1966, and surveyed by
British Antarctic Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of list of global issues, global issues, and to provide an active prese ...
(BAS), 1970–73. Named by the
United Kingdom 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) and ...
(UK-APC) in 1978 after Douglas E. Warren, Director of Overseas Surveys, 1968–80, with overall responsibility for British mapping in the Antarctic.


Further reading

* Jane G. Ferrigno, Alison J. Cook, Amy M. Mathie, Richard S. Williams, Jr., Charles Swithinbank, Kevin M. Foley, Adrian J. Fox, Janet W. Thomson, and Jörn Sievers,
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1940–2005
', USGS


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References

Ice piedmonts of Palmer Land {{PalmerLand-geo-stub