Arctowski Dome
| Arctowski Dome | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 0 ′ 16 ″ S , 58 ° 8 ′ 43 ″ W | |
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The Arctowski Dome ( Polish : Kopuła Arctowskiego ) is the largest ice dome on King George Island in the South Shetland Islands . It extends from the Fildes Peninsula to Sherratt Bay .
A Polish Antarctic expedition named him in 1980 after the Polish meteorologist Henryk Arctowski (1871-1958), participant in the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The original name as Arctowski Ice Field was changed in 2004 by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names .
Web links
- Arctowski Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arctowski Dome on geographic.org (English)