Mott Snowfield
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Mott Snowfield is a snowfield in northeast Trinity Peninsula
between Laclavere Plateau
and Antarctic Sound
. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter G. Mott, leader of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1955-57.
Trinity Peninsula
Trinity Peninsula is the extreme northern portion of the Antarctic Peninsula, extending northeastward for about from a line connecting Cape Kjellman and Cape Longing. Dating back more than a century, chartmakers used various names for this portion of the Antarctic peninsula, each name having some...
between Laclavere Plateau
Laclavere Plateau
Laclavere Plateau is a plateau, 10 nautical miles long and from 1 to 3 nautical miles wide, rising to 1,035 m between Misty Pass and Theodolite Hill, Trinity Peninsula. The plateau rises south of Schmidt Peninsula and the Chilean scientific station, General Bernardo O'Higgins...
and Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound
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 Nordenskiöld for the expedition ship Antarctic which in 1902, under the command...
. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter G. Mott, leader of Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1955-57.
Map
- Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.