John Paul II coast
| John Paul II coast
Joannes Paulus II Coast
Wybrzeże Jana Pawła II |
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Drake Street | |
| southwest |
Fildes Peninsula 62 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W |
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| Northeast |
Pottinger Point 61 ° 56 '1.3 " S , 58 ° 21' 28.1" W. |
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Coordinates: 62 ° 2 ′ S , 58 ° 37 ′ W
As John Paul II Coast ( english Joannes Paulus II Coast , Polish Wybrzeże Jana Pawła II ), the rugged, glaciated north-west coast of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands , respectively. It stretches along Drakestrasse from the Fildes Peninsula in the southwest to Pottinger Point in the northeast.
The coast was named no later than 1980 (during the reign of Edward Gierek ) by Polish polar explorers after Pope John Paul II, elected in 1978 .
Individual evidence
- ^ K. Birkenmajer: New place names introduced to the area of Admiralty Bay, King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). - Studia Geologica Polonica, vol. 64 (the first of four volumes published in 1980), pp. 67–87. Quoted from Cisak (1992): List of place-names ..., p. 301.
- ↑ 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. 284. Retrieved on August 16, 2017
- ↑ Joannes Paulus II Coast in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on August 16, 2017