Cugnot Ice Piedmont

Cugnot Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont in Trinity Peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) long and between 3 and 6 miles (5 and 10 km) wide, extending from Russell East Glacier to Eyrie Bay and bounded on the landward side by Louis Philippe Plateau. It was mapped from surveys by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Nicolas J. Cugnot, a French military engineer who designed and built the first full-sized vehicle propelled by its own engine (steam), in 1769.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.

References

•  This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Cugnot Ice Piedmont" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).