Gdynia Point

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Gdynia Point
Geographical location
Gdynia Point (South Shetland Islands)
Gdynia Point
Coordinates 62 ° 10 ′  S , 58 ° 33 ′  W Coordinates: 62 ° 10 ′  S , 58 ° 33 ′  W
location Dufayel Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters Ezcurra Fjord

The Gdynia Point ( Polish Przylądek Gdynia ) is the eastern headland of Dufayel Island in the Ezcurra Fjord of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .

Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named it after the Polish port city of Gdynia .

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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. 281. Retrieved January 13, 2018