Polonia Piedmont Glacier
| Polonia Piedmont Glacier | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 2 ′ S , 58 ° 12 ′ W | |
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| drainage | King George Bay , Bransfield Street | |
The Polonia Piedmont Glacier ( Polish Lodowiec Polonia ) is a semicircular foreland glacier on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located between Lions Rump and Turret Point at the head of King George Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition (1979–1980) named the glacier after their home country, Poland .
Web links
- Polonia Ice Piedmont on the homepage of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of place names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 292. Retrieved on January 13, 2018