Polar Club Glacier
| Polar Club Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 14 ′ S , 58 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Szymański Cove and Bransfield Street | |
The Arctic Club Glacier (English for polar glaciers club , polish Lodowiec Klubu Polarnego ) is a broad glacier on the south coast of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows east-northeast of Stranger Point and west of Telefon Point into Bransfieldstrasse .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition in 1980 named it after the Polar Association of the Polish Geographic Society. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred the Polish name to English in 2003.
Web links
- Polar Club Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Polar Club Glacier on geographic.org (English)