Mount Krokisius () is a
mountain
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0.6 nautical miles (1.1 km) northeast of
Moltke Harbor,
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. Named by the German group of the
International Polar Year
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Investigations, 1882–83, for
Corvette Captain Krokisius, commander of the Marie, one of the two ships of the expedition.
Krokisius, Mount
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