Mouillard Glacier [SEP] continent
Mouillard Glacier
Mouillard Glacier () is a glacier flowing into the southeast corner of Brialmont Cove, on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was photographed by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. The glacier was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Louis P. Mouillard, a French pioneer of gliding flight.
his book. The vulture in front of the pedestal is based on his illustration used in his 1881 book. Rue Pierre-Mouillard is a Paris street named in his honour.
See also.
- List of early flying machines
External links.
- Mouillard
- L'Empire de l'air. Essai d'ornithologie appliquee a l'aviation (1881)
- Correspondence between Octave Chanute and Mouillard
- Mouillard biography
- Publications by Mouillard