Blue Dyke

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Blue Dyke
Blue Dyke Cape King George Island.JPG
Blue Dyke (above)
Geographical location
Blue Dyke (South Shetland Islands)
Blue Dyke
Coordinates 62 ° 14 ′  S , 58 ° 27 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 14 ′  S , 58 ° 27 ′  W
location King George Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Bransfield Street
Waters 2 Admiralty Bay

Blue Dyke (English, Polish Błękitna Dajka ; in Argentina Punta Cossio ) is a headland including a series of offshore cliffs of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located south of Baszta Hill on the west side of the entrance from Bransfield Strait into Admiralty Bay .

Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the dyke found here, made of bluish andesite .

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