Shark Fin (King George Island)
| Shark Fin | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Shark Fin ( English , Polish Płetwa Rekina , 'shark fin' ) is a pointed, sharp-edged and 230 m high mountain on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It rises between the Stenhouse Glacier and the Ajax Icefall on the banks of the Visca Anchorage .
Polish scientists named it descriptively in 1980.
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1399 (English)
Web links
- Shark Fin in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)