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Fuchs Ice Piedmont ( 67°10′S 68°40′W  /  67.167°S 68.667°W  / -67.167; -68.667 ) is an ice piedmont 70 nautical miles (130 km) long, extending in a northeast–southwest direction along the entire west coast of Adelaide Island . It was first mapped in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot . It was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) for Sir Vivian E. Fuchs , FIDS base leader and geologist at Stonington Island in 1948–49.

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2-685: Near the southeast end of the piedmont, 3 nmi (5.6 km) west-northwest of the summit of Mount Ditte , Window Buttress rises to about 800 m (2,600 ft) high. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1982, from the window-like structure near the top of the cliff, which is visible only from the southwest. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates public domain material from "Fuchs Ice Piedmont" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Adelaide Island location article

4-511: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Mount Ditte Mount Ditte ( 67°43′S 68°37′W  /  67.717°S 68.617°W  / -67.717; -68.617 ) is a mountain, 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) high, surmounting Cape Alexandra in the southeast extremity of Adelaide Island . It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10 , and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Alfred Ditte ,

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