Kosiba Wall
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| location | Blaiklock Island ( Adelaide and Biscoe Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
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| Coordinates | 67 ° 31 ′ S , 66 ° 55 ′ W | |
The Kosiba Wall is a 1180 m high cliff at the northeastern end of Blaiklock Island in the archipelago of the Adelaide and Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The British Antarctic Survey carried out geological work in the area between 1980 and 1981. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the cliff in 1986 after the Polish climatologist and glaciologist Alexander Kosiba (1901-1981) from the University of Wroclaw , who in 1937 the first Polish expedition to Greenland and from 1957 to 1960 another research trip for glaciological studies to Spitsbergen had directed.
Web links
- Kosiba Wall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kosiba Wall on geographic.org (English)