Rolnicki Buttresses
| Rolnicki Buttresses | ||
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| part of | Melville Peak | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 2 ′ S , 57 ° 41 ′ W | |
The Rolnicki Buttresses ( Urwiska Rolnickiego in Polish ) are a group of towering cliffs made of lava rock , agglomerates and tuff of Melville Peak on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . They tower on the shores of Sherratt Bay .
Polish scientists named it in 19841 after the Polish engineer Krzysztof Rolnicki, who participated in two Polish expeditions to the Antarctic (1978–1979 and 1980–1981).
Web links
- Rolnicki Buttresses in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)