Stwosz Icefall
| Stwosz Icefall | ||
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 ′ S , 58 ° 13 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Legru Bay | |
The Stwosz Icefall ( Polish : Lodospad Wita Stwosza ) is a glacier break on the south coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the Krakow Peninsula into the head end of Legru Bay .
Participants in a Polish Antarctic expedition named him in 1980 after the sculptor Wit Stwosz ( Veit Stoss , ≈1447–1533), whose works include the Kraków high altar .
Web links
- Stwosz Icefall in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stwosz Icefall on geographic.org (English)