Baranowski Glacier
Baranowski Glacier is a glacier flowing east into Admiralty Bay, King George Island, northwest of Demay Point. It was named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition after Stanisław Baranowski, Polish glaciologist who died on King George Island as a result of an accident at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station while a member of the 1977–78 expedition.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Anvil Crag and Pawson Peak.
Anvil Crag
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anvil Crag is a rock crag rising to 300 metres 1 nautical mile west-southwest of Sphinx Hill, King George Island. The vertical crag is at the head of a medial moraine.
Pawson Peak
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pawson Peak is a solitary peak of irregular conical shape, rising to 250 m west-northwest of Sphinx Hill, Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Named in 1977 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Kenneth Pawson, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey meteorological observer, Port Lockroy, 1947–48; general assistant, Admiralty Bay, 1948–50.
Sphinx Hill
Peak
Photo: Acaro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sphinx Hill is a conspicuous, isolated black hill, 145 m, standing 1.5 nautical miles north-northwest of Demay Point on King George Island, South Shetland Islands.
Baranowski Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 97 metres
- Description: glacier in Antarctica
- Category: landform
- Location: Antarctica
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-62.20147° or 62° 12′ 5″ southLongitude
-58.45963° or 58° 27′ 35″ westElevation
97 metres (318 feet)Open location code
3893QGXR+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 775893595OpenStreetMap feature
natural=glacier
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Baranowski Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Baranowski Glacier”
- Chinese: “巴拉諾夫斯基冰川”
- German: “Baranowski-Gletscher”
- Italian: “Ghiacciaio Baranowski”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baranowskibreen”
- Polish: “Baranowski Glacier”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Baranowskiego”
- Swedish: “Baranowski Glacier”
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