Mott Snowfield Explained

Type:Snowfield
Map:Antarctica
Map Relief:y
Coordinates:-63.3333°N -77°W
Location:Trinity Peninsula, Graham Land

Mott Snowfield (-63.3333°N -77°W) is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound.

Location

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, suthwest of Mount Bransfield, northwest of Hope Bay, and northeast of Laclavère Plateau.Named features include Fidase Peak, Magnet Hill and Camel Nunataks.

Name

Mott Snowfield 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.

Features

Fidase Peak

-63.3833°N -90°W. A distinctive peak east of Mount Jacquinot, rising to high at 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.

Magnet Hill

-63.3667°N -79°W. A small, distinctive snow-covered hill rising from Mott Snowfield, northeast of Camel Nunataks. The hill 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.

Camel Nunataks

-63.4167°N -83°W. Two similar rock nunataks rising to high, apart and north of View Point, Trinity Peninsula. The name is descriptive and has been in use amongst Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) personnel at Hope Bay since about 1959.

Yagodina Knoll

-63.2879°N -57.1517°WThe ice-covered hill rising to high at the northeast extremity of Trinity Peninsula. Situated south-southeast of Siffrey Point, west-southwest of Mount Bransfield, northwest of Koerner Rock and east-northeast of Fidase Peak. Surmounting Mott Snowfield to the southwest. German-British mapping in 1996. Named after the settlement of Yagodina in Southern Bulgaria.

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