Mott Snowfield ( 63°20′S 57°20′W / 63.333°S 57.333°W / -63.333; -57.333 ( Mott Snowfield ) ) is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula , Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound .
13-644: Mott Snowfield is in Graham Land in the north of the Trinity Peninsula , which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is southeast of the Duroch Islands and Schmidt Peninsula , south of Coupvent Point and Prime Head , southwest of Mount Bransfield , northwest of Hope Bay , and northeast of Laclavère Plateau . Named features include Fidase Peak, Magnet Hill and Camel Nunataks. Mott Snowfield
26-521: A peninsula. The mountains of Graham Land are the last range of the American Cordillera , the almost continuous sequence of mountain ranges forming the western "backbone" of North America, Central America, South America and the Antarctic Peninsula . Argentina calls the area Tierra de San Martín (Land of San Martin) and also calls the northern peninsula ( Trinity Peninsula ) Península Trinidad or Tierra de la Trinidad . Similarly, Chile calls
39-698: Is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica . The committee was established in 1943 as the Special Committee on Antarctic Names (SCAN). It became the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1947. Fred G. Alberts was Secretary of the Committee from 1949 to 1980. By 1959, a structured nomenclature
52-668: Is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) personnel at Hope Bay since about 1959. 63°17′16.5″S 57°09′06″W / 63.287917°S 57.15167°W / -63.287917; -57.15167 The ice-covered hill rising to 595 metres (1,952 ft) high at the northeast extremity of Trinity Peninsula. Situated 8.21 kilometres (5.10 mi) south-southeast of Siffrey Point , 2.81 kilometres (1.75 mi) west-southwest of Mount Bransfield , 3.85 kilometres (2.39 mi) northwest of Koerner Rock and 22.4 kilometres (13.9 mi) east-northeast of Fidase Peak. Surmounting Mott Snowfield to
65-557: 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 and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names , in which the name "Antarctic Peninsula" was approved for the major peninsula of Antarctica , and the names Graham Land and Palmer Land for
78-559: The Chilean Antarctic Territory ). Graham Land is the closest part of Antarctica to South America. Thus it is the usual destination for small ships taking paying visitors on Antarctic trips from South America . (Larger ships are not allowed to disembark passengers.) Until the discoveries of the British Graham Land Expedition of 1934–1937, it was generally supposed to be an archipelago rather than
91-463: The entire Antarctic Peninsula Tierra de O'Higgins (Land of O'Higgins). The interior of Graham Land is occupied by a series of plateaus, namely (north to south) Laclavère Plateau , Louis Philippe Plateau , Detroit Plateau , Herbert Plateau , Foster Plateau , Forbidden Plateau , Bruce Plateau , Avery Plateau and Hemimont Plateau . Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names ( ACAN or US-ACAN )
104-534: The northern and southern portions, respectively. The line dividing them is roughly 69 degrees south. Graham Land is named after Sir James R. G. Graham , First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe 's exploration of the west side of Graham Land in 1832. It is claimed by Argentina (as part of Argentine Antarctica ), Britain (as part of the British Antarctic Territory ) and Chile (as part of
117-545: The southwest. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Yagodina in Southern Bulgaria. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey . Graham Land 66°00′S 63°30′W / 66.000°S 63.500°W / -66.000; -63.500 Graham Land is the portion of
130-480: The west end of Mott Snowfield. FIDASE represents the initial letters of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955-57) led by P.O. Mott. 63°22′S 57°22′W / 63.367°S 57.367°W / -63.367; -57.367 . A small, distinctive snow-covered hill rising from Mott Snowfield, 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) northeast of Camel Nunataks. The hill
143-517: Was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Peter G. Mott, leader of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1955–57. Download coordinates as: 63°23′S 57°33′W / 63.383°S 57.550°W / -63.383; -57.550 . A distinctive peak 9 nautical miles (17 km; 10 mi) east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to 915 metres (3,002 ft) high at
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#1732875929367156-454: Was reached, allowing for further exploration, structured mapping of the region and a unique naming system. A 1990 ACAN gazeeter of Antarctica listed 16,000 names. The United States does not recognise territorial boundaries within Antarctica, so ACAN assigns names to features anywhere within the continent, in consultation with other national nomenclature bodies where appropriate, as defined by
169-527: 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. 63°25′S 57°26′W / 63.417°S 57.433°W / -63.417; -57.433 . Two similar rock nunataks rising to 450 metres (1,480 ft) high, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) apart and 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) north of View Point , Trinity Peninsula. The name
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