2-547: Handel Ice Piedmont ( 70°20′S 71°0′W / 70.333°S 71.000°W / -70.333; -71.000 ) is a large ice piedmont lying north and west of the Colbert Mountains , between Haydn Inlet and Schubert Inlet on the west-central coast of Alexander Island , Antarctica . Apparently first seen from the air by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940 but not separately mapped, it
4-792: Was first mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition , 1947–48, by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1960. The feature was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for George Frideric Handel , the German composer. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from "Handel Ice Piedmont" . Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . This Alexander Island location article
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