Ladies buttresses
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 33 ′ W | |
The Ladies Buttresses ( Panieńskie Skaly in Polish , Girls Rock ) are rocky outcrops on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They tower west of Urbanek Crag on the north bank of Ezcurra Fjord .
Polish scientists named them in 1980 in honor of the female participants in the Polish Antarctic expeditions carried out from 1977 to 1978 and from 1978 to 1979.
Web links
- Ladies Buttresses in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)