Kowalski cliff
| Kowalski cliff | ||
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| part of | Three Musketeers Hill | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 3 ′ S , 58 ° 27 ′ W | |
The Kowalski Cliff ( Filar Kowalskiego in Polish ) is a bare and 250 m high cliff on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the banks of Mackellar Inlet , it rises in the middle of the Domeyko Glacier in the northern part of Three Musketeers Hill .
Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the doctor Wiesław Kowalski, a participant in the Polish Antarctic expedition that ran from 1977 to 1978.
Web links
- Kowalski Cliff in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)