Kraków Dome
| Kraków Dome | ||
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 View over Admiralty Bay to the Kraków Dome |
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Kraków Dome ( Polish Kopuła Krakówa , Kraków Dome ) is an ice dome on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It looms over the Krakow peninsula .
A Polish Antarctic expedition named it in 1980 after the former Polish capital Krakow . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 2003.
Web links
- Kraków Dome in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kraków Dome on geographic.org (English)