Mercator Ice Piedmont is a gently-sloping ice piedmont

Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."-References:*The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary Cassell, London, 1958...

 at the head of Mobiloil Inlet

Mobiloil Inlet

Mobiloil Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, nurtured by several northeast and east flowing glaciers, lying between Rock Pile Peaks and Hollick-Kenyon Peninsula along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by Sir Hubert Wilkins in a flight on December 20, 1928, and named by him after a...

, formed by the confluence of the Gibbs

Gibbs Glacier

Gibbs Glacier is a glacier, 15 nautical miles long, flowing southeast into the north part of Mercator Ice Piedmont on the east side of Antarctic Peninsula. This feature together with Neny Glacier, which flows northwest, occupy a transverse depression between Mercator Ice Piedmont and Neny Fjord...

, Lammers

Lammers Glacier

Lammers Glacier is a large glacier flowing east along the north side of Godfrey Upland into the Traffic Circle and Mercator Ice Piedmont, on the east coast of Graham Land...

, Cole

Cole Glacier

Cole Glacier is a glacier on the east side of Godfrey Upland, long, flowing north-northeast into the Traffic Circle, in southern Graham Land. It was first seen by the United States Antarctic Service in 1940, but not named...

 and Weyerhaeuser Glacier

Weyerhaeuser Glacier

Weyerhaeuser Glacier is a large glacier flowing north into Mercator Ice Piedmont close west of Mobiloil Inlet, on the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula. This glacier lies in the area first explored from the air by Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1928 and Lincoln Ellsworth in 1935, but it was first clearly...

s in eastern Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. The feature was first photographed from the air by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 in November 1935, and was plotted from these photos by W.L.G. Joerg as the lower end of a "major valley

Valley

In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

 depression" along the coast. First seen from the ground by Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne

Finn Ronne was a U.S. Antarctic explorer.-Background:Finn Ronne was born in Horten, in Vestfold county, Norway. His father, Martin Rønne , was a polar explorer and served in Roald Amundsen's successful expedition to the South Pole...

 and C.R. Eklund

Carl R. Eklund

Carl R. Eklund was a leading American specialist in ornithology and geographic research in both the north and south polar regions.From 1939-41 he served as ornithologist at the East Base of the U.S. Antarctic Service. This was the first modern US. Government-sponsored expedition to Antarctica, and...

 of United States Antarctic Service (USAS), 1939–41, which also obtained air photos. Surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in December 1958. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Gerardus Mercator

Gerardus Mercator

thumb|right|200px|Gerardus MercatorGerardus Mercator was a cartographer, born in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, part of the Holy Roman Empire. He is remembered for the Mercator projection world map, which is named after him...

(1512–94), Flemish mathematician and geographer, originator of the map projection which bears his name, 1568.