Krakow Peninsula

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Krakow Peninsula
Geographical location
Krakow Peninsula (South Shetland Islands)
Krakow Peninsula
Coordinates 62 ° 7 '37 "  S , 58 ° 14' 55"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 7 '37 "  S , 58 ° 14' 55"  W
location King George Island ( South Shetland Islands )
Waters 1 Admiralty Bay
Waters 2 King George Bay

The Krakow Peninsula is a peninsula on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It separates Admiralty Bay from King George Bay .

Scientists on a Polish Antarctic expedition named the almost entirely ice-covered peninsula as Kopuła Krakowa (Polish for Krakow dome ) after the former Polish capital Krakow . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee changed this name into English in 1984 as Kraków Peninsula .

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