Poetry Glacier
| Poetry Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 61 ° 57 ′ S , 57 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Venus Bay | |
The Poetry Glacier ( Polish Lodowiec poezji , poetry -Gletscher ' ) is a glacier on the north coast of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows first in a northerly, then in a northwest direction to Venus Bay .
Scientists on a Polish Antarctic expedition named it in 1984 based on the name of Miłosz Point , which is named after the Polish poet and Nobel Prize winner Czesław Miłosz (1911-2004). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the naming of the glacier into English in 2003.
Web links
- Poetry Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Poetry Glacier on geographic.org (English)