Czeslaw Point

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Czeslaw Point
Geographical location
Czesław Point (South Shetland Islands)
Czeslaw Point
Coordinates 61 ° 54 ′  S , 57 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 61 ° 54 ′  S , 57 ° 45 ′  W
location King George Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters Venus Bay
Waters 2 Emerald Cove

The Czesław Point ( Polish Przylądek Czesława ) is a headland on the north coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It extends north-northeast of Miłosz Point from Brimstone Peak between Venus Bay and Emerald Cove in a northerly direction.

Polish scientists named it in 1984 after the Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004).

literature

  • John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 338 (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of place names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 278. Accessed June 14, 2018