Kroshka Island
| Kroshka Island | ||
|---|---|---|
| Waters | Fimbul Ice Shelf , Lake Lazarev | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 40 ′ S , 2 ° 5 ′ E | |
|
||
Kroshka Island ( Russian Купол Крошка Kupol Kroschka , German 'Krümelkuppel' , Norwegian Smuledomen ) is the smaller of two icy islands in the Fimbul Ice Shelf off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .
Soviet scientists did the first mapping and descriptive naming in 1961. The latter was translated into English by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1970 in an adapted form.
Web links
- Kroshka Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kroshka Island on geographic.org (English)