Wrona Buttress
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| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 0 ′ S , 57 ° 39 ′ W | |
Wrona Buttress ( Polish Urwisko Wrony , Wrona-Kliff ' ) is a 100 m high cliff at the eastern end of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It towers northeast of Melville Peak above Gazdzicki Sound .
Polish scientists named it in 1984 after the paleontologist Ryszard Wrona, a participant in the Polish Antarctic expedition that ran from 1980 to 1981.
Web links
- Wrona Buttress in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)