Krakowiak glacier
| Krakowiak glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Mountains | Chopin Ridge | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 8 ′ S , 58 ° 8 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Bransfield Street | |
The Krakowiak Glacier ( Polish : Lodowiec Krakowiak ) is a small hanging glacier on Chopin Ridge on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from Kraków Dome to Bransfield Street , which it reaches between Lions Rump and Low Head .
Polish scholars named it in 1980 after the Polish folk dance Krakowiak .
Web links
- Krakowiak Glacier on the Australian Antarctic Data Center homepage