Staszek Cove
| Staszek Cove | ||
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 Staszek Cove, left: Sphinx Hill |
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| Waters | Admiralty Bay | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 ′ 4 ″ S , 58 ° 26 ′ 21 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Baranowski Glacier , overflow of Ginger Lake , Fosa Creek | |
The Staszek Cove (English; Polish Zatoka Staszka 'Staszeks Bay' ) is a bay on the west bank of Admiralty Bay of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in front of the mouth of the northern lobe of the Baranowski Glacier .
Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the Polish glaciologist Stanisław Baranowski (1935–1978), who died on August 27, 1978 as a result of gas poisoning eight months earlier at the Arctowski station .
Web links
- Staszek Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (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. 295. Retrieved on February 21, 2019