Krak glacier
| Krak glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 6 ′ S , 58 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Lussich Cove | |
The Krak Glacier ( Polish Lodowiec Kraka ) is a glacier on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from Kraków Dome to the head end of Lussich Cove , a side bay of Martel Inlet in Admiralty Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named him after Krak , Duke of the Vandals and central figure in the founding myth of the city of Krakow .
Web links
- Krak Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Krak Glacier on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 285. Retrieved on February 27, 2018