Evans Piedmont Glacier

Evans Piedmont Glacier (76°44′S 162°40′E / 76.733°S 162.667°E / -76.733; 162.667) is a broad ice sheet occupying the low-lying coastal platform between Tripp Island and Cape Archer in Victoria Land, Antarctica.

[1] Evans Piedmont Glacier was circumnavigated in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE), 1956–58, and was named after Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Royal Navy, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, who was one of the South Pole Party under Captain Robert Falcon Scott, and who lost his life on the Beardmore Glacier on the return journey.

Hedblom, U.S. Navy (USN), Medical Officer of Task Force 43 in the Ross Sea area, Operation Deep Freeze I, 1955-56.

A small granite island lying 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northwest of Cape Ross, off the coast of Victoria Land.

Discovered by the South Magnetic Pole Party of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, and so named by them because they put a depot of rock specimens on this island.

A granite headland 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) north of Cape Archer on the coast of Victoria Land.

A small island lying just off the east coast of Victoria Land, 2.5 nautical miles (4.6 km; 2.9 mi) northeast of Cape Archer.

Evans Piedmont Glacier in southwest of map
Region to the west of the glacier