Wilckens Gully
| Wilckens Gully | ||
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| location | Snow Hill Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 21 '30 " S , 56 ° 56' 44" W | |
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The Wilckens Gully is a glacial channel in the clay-like rock on the east side of the Spath Peninsula of Snow Hill Island in the Antarctic Weddell Sea .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1995 after the German geologist and paleontologist Otto Wilckens (1876-1943), who had written a treatise on the results of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld .
Web links
- Wilckens Gully in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilckens Gully on geographic.org (English)