Anvil Crag
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 The Baranowski Glacier with the Anvil Crag (left) and the Siodło (right). In the background: Pawson Peak |
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 12 ′ S , 58 ° 29 ′ W | |
The Anvil Crag ( English for anvil rock ; Polish Zamek ) is an approximately 300 m (according to Polish information 339 m ) high cliff on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises about 1.5 km west-southwest of Sphinx Hill at the head of a central moraine .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee gave the rock its descriptive name in 1977 . Polish scientists, on the other hand, named it after the Warsaw Royal Castle in 1980 .
Web links
- Anvil Crag in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Anvil Crag on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zamek in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (accessed July 22, 2020).