Uplaz

Uplaz
Uplaz
	Uplaz as seen from the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station, in 1984.
Highest point
Elevation	4 m (13 ft)
Coordinates	62°09′40″S 58°28′20″W / 62.16111°S 58.47222°W
Geography
	Uplaz Location in the South Shetland Islands Uplaz Location in Antarctica
Location	King George Island

Uplaz (Polish: Upłaz) is a ridge on the King George Island, in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands. It is located near the shore of Admiralty Bay, to the southwest of Jasnorzewski Gardens meadow and the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. Its peak is 4 m (13.1 ft) above mean sea level.^[1]^[2]

Name

It was named Upłaz in 1980 by the scientists of the Polish expedition. It was named after upłaz, a Polish-language term for a flat or shallow, grassy part of a slope, after such formations present in the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland. In English, the name was anglinised to Uplaz.^[1]^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b "Uplaz". data.aad.gov.au.
^ ^a ^b Nazewnictwo geograficzne świata, issue 8: Antarktyka. Warsaw: Komisja Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2006. (in Polish)

[aad-1] "Uplaz". data.aad.gov.au.

[ngs-2] Nazewnictwo geograficzne świata, issue 8: Antarktyka. Warsaw: Komisja Standaryzacji Nazw Geograficznych poza Granicami Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, 2006. (in Polish)

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