Avalanche Corrie

Avalanche Corrie

Avalanche Corrie (coord|60|40|S|45|22|W|) is an ice-filled cirque, or corrie, close north of Amphibolite Point on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands. So named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), following their survey of 1948-49, because of the continuous avalanches from the hanging glaciers above the corrie.


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