Urbanek Icefall
| Urbanek Icefall | ||
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| length | 1 km | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 8 ′ 30 " S , 58 ° 31 ′ 30" W | |
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| drainage | Ezcurra Fjord | |
The Urbanek Icefall is a 1 km long glacial break on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the north bank of the Ezcurra Fjord, it lies between the Polar Committee Icefall in the northeast and the Ladies Icefall in the southwest.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2016. It is named after the Polish paleontologist Adam Urbanek (1928–2014), former president of the polar scientific committee of the Academy of Sciences in Warsaw .
Web links
- Urbanek Icefall in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)