Weimar ice cusps

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Weimar ice cusps
height 150  m ( geoidal , not WGS84 )
location Ekström Ice Shelf , Princess Martha Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica
Coordinates 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 71 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  S , 7 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W
Weimar Ice Cusps (Antarctica)
Weimar ice cusps
Type Ice cusps

The Weimar ice cusp is an ice cusp ( English ice rumple ) in the southeast of the Ekström Ice Shelf on the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land .

The actual hump - the rock directly covered by ice - is 2.5 kilometers long (in a north-east-south-west direction) and 1 km wide (in a north-west-south-east direction), but only beyond an approximately 5 km wide deformation area that defines it surrounds on all sides, the ice shelf floats undisturbed.

The ice cusp was named in 2002 after the city of Weimar , which was European Capital of Culture in 1999 . "The cosmopolitan idea of ​​the Capital of Culture idea is also characteristic of German Antarctic research," says the reasoning, which refers to the presence of the German Neumayer station in the region since 1981 .

The German State Committee for the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and for the International Arctic Science Committee (LaSCAR / ISAC) accepted Robert Metzig's proposal for a name from the Alfred Wegener Institute on June 21, 2002 after the Standing Committee on Geographical Names (StAGN ) of the German-speaking countries approved it on October 31, 2001.

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