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Slossarczyk Crag: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Slossarczyk Crag in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Slossarczyk Crag

Feature Class (see definition): Cliff

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 14038

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 54° 51' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 035° 59' 00" W

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -54.85

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -35.9833333

Elevation (see definition): 805

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1963

Description (see definition): Mountain crag, 805 m, between Doubtful Bay and Esbensen Bay at the SE end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey (SGS) in the period 1951-57. Named by the UK Antarctic Place-names Committee (UK-APC) for Third Officer Walter Slossarczyk, communications officer on the Deutschland during the German Antarctic Expedition (GerAE) under Filchner until his death in South Georgia on Nov. 26, 1911. Filchner had named the present Doubtful Bay for Slossarczyk, but the earlier naming did not survive.

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Slossarczyk Crag in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Slossarczyk Crag information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Slossarczyk Crag should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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