Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Marr Ice Piedmont

(Anvers Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 64° 30' 53" S 63° 44' 12" W
covering half of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, and extending from Cape Bayle in N to Arthur Harbour in S, was presumably sighted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1873-74; roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903-05 and 1908-10; named after Dr James William Slesser Marr (1902-65), British marine biologist; member (as boy scout), Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition, 1921-22, and (as biologist) British expedition to Svalbard, 1925; member of Discovery Investigations scientific staff, 1927-49, and of National Institute of Oceanography, 1949-65; William Scoresby, 1928-29, and Discovery II, 1931-33 and 1935-37; biologist, BANZARE, 1929-31 (Sir Douglas Mawson), and whale factory ship Terje Viken, 1939-40; Commander (as Lieut. Cdr, RNVR), Operation 'Tabarin', and Base Leader, 'Port Lockroy', 1943-44; surveyed in part by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Arthur Harbour' in 1955 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57.