Danowski Glacier
| Danowski Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 2 ′ S , 57 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sherratt Bay | |
The Danowski Glacier ( Polish Lodowiec Danowskiego ) is a glacier on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Melville Peak and the Melville Peninsula and ends in the form of an ice cliff at Sherratt Bay .
Polish scientists named it after 1984 after the Polish geologist Władysław Danowski (1928–2015), a participant in the Polish Antarctic expedition, which was carried out from 1980 to 1981.
Web links
- Danowski Glacier in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)