Davis Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont about 10 nautical miles (18 km) long and 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, located along the north side of Missen Ridge

Missen Ridge

Missen Ridge is a long, ice-covered ridge situated south of the Davis Ice Piedmont and extending along the peninsula of which Cape Hooker is the northeast point, on the north coast of Victoria Land. Named by ANARE for R. Missen, weather technician on the ANARE cruise along this coast, 1962....

 on the north coast of Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. The name "Cape Davis

Cape Davis

Cape Davis is a rounded ice-covered cape along the north coast of Edward VIII Plateau, 9 nautical miles east of Magnet Bay. Discovered on January 12, 1930, by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, who named it for Captain John King Davis, Director of...

," after John E. Davis, Second Master

Second Master

Second master was a rating introduced into the Royal Navy in 1753 that indicated a deputy master on third-rate ships of the line or larger.Second masters were paid significantly more than master's mates, £5 5s per month. A second master was generally a master's mate who had passed his examination...

 of the James C. Ross in 1841. Since no significant cape exists here, the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) and New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee

New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board plus selected specialists on Antarctica...

(NZ-APC) have reapplied the name Davis to this ice piedmont.