Stanyukovich Ice Shelf

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Coordinates: 69 ° 35 ′  S , 31 ° 5 ′  E

Relief Map: Antarctica
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The Stanyukovich Ice Shelf ( Russian Шельфовый Ледник Станюковича Schelfowy Lednik Stanjukowitscha ) is an ice shelf on the Princess Ragnhild coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies in the Vestvika west of the Riiser-Larsen Peninsula .

Russian scientists named it. The namesake is not known. One possible candidate is the Russian naval officer and writer Konstantin Michailowitsch Stanjukowitsch (1843–1903).

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