Wright Ice Piedmont

Location of Davis Coast on the Antarctic Peninsula.

Wright Ice Piedmont (63°58′S 60°20′W / 63.967°S 60.333°W / -63.967; -60.333Coordinates: 63°58′S 60°20′W / 63.967°S 60.333°W / -63.967; -60.333) is an ice piedmont extending westward from Lanchester Bay along the west coast of Graham Land. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Wilbur Wright (1867–1912) and his brother Orville Wright (1871–1948), American aeronautical engineers who made the first controlled flights in a powered heavier-than-air machine on December 17, 1903.

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