Shmidt Subglacial Basin
Shmidt Subglacial Basin is a large subglacial basin situated southward of Knox Coast in East Antarctica. Named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957, after Soviet academician, Professor Otto Yu. Shmidt. This article incorporates public domain material from…- Plateau with an elevation of around 2,830 metres (9,280 feet)
- Description: subglacial basin in Antarctica
- Also known as“Podlëdnaja ravnina Shmidta”“Shmidta, podlëdnaja ravnina”
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- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-72° or 72° south
Longitude
106° east
Open location code
2PW82222+22
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Shmidt Subglacial Basin” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Shmidta”
- German: “Schmidt-Subglazialbecken”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shmidt Subglacial Basin”
- Russian: “Подлёдная равнина Шмидта”
- Swedish: “Shmidta”
- Ukrainian: “Підлідна рівнина Шмідта”
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