Doctors Icefall
| Doctors Icefall | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 ′ S , 58 ° 39 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Goulden Cove | |
The Doctors Icefall (English for Doktoreneisfall , Polish Lodospad Doktorów ) is an icefall on King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . He is at the head of the Goulden Cove of Ezcurra Fjord in Admiralty Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named him in 1980 after their doctoral team. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Polish name to English in 2003.
Web links
- Doctors Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Doctors Icefall on geographic.org (English)