Kros moraine
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| location | Windmill Islands , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 110 ° 39 ′ E | |
 Map of the middle Windmill Islands with the Kros Moraine (bottom, right of center) |
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The Kros moraine is a 140 m high and crescent-shaped moraine off the Budd coast of the East Antarctic Wilkesland . It is located around 2 km east of the Robinson Ridge peninsula in the middle of the Windmill Islands .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1976 after the geodesist Martin Kros (* 1950), who wintered at Casey Station in 1975 .
Web links
- Kros Moraine in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)