Widmark Ice Piedmont

Location of Stresher Peninsula on Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula.

Widmark Ice Piedmont (66°17′S 65°30′W / 66.283°S 65.500°W / -66.283; -65.500) is an ice piedmont between Holtedahl and Darbel bays on Stresher Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd in 1955-57, it was mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1959 after Erik J. Widmark (1850–1909), a Swedish ophthalmologist and pioneer of researches upon the etiology and treatment of snow blindness.

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