Dunikowski Ridge
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 11 ′ W | |
Dunikowski Ridge ( Polish Grań Dunikowskiego ) is a 315 m high mountain ridge on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises northeast of Legru Bay with a northwest-southeast orientation .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition to King George Island, which lasted from 1977 to 1979, named him after the Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski (1875–1964). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Polish name to English on April 3, 1984.
Web links
- Dunikowski Ridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Dunikowski Ridge on geographic.org (English)