Wkład Profesora Stefana Zbigniewa Różyckiego w rozwój polskich badań polarnych : w 90. rocznicę pierwszej polskiej wyprawy na Spitsbergen

In the summer of1934, the first Polish scientific expedition to Spitsbergen took place. Its co-organizer and active participant was Stefan Zbigniew Różycki, later an eminent geologist, the founder of Polish Quaternary geology, a respected professor at University of Warsaw, Director of the Polish Geological Institute, organizer of scientific life, traveller. The expedition was a great scientific and international image success for Poland. On the hypsometric bases plotted by the expedition participants, Różycki compiled the first geological map of the NW part of the Torell Land at a scale of1: 50,000, along with an extensive text. This monograph has become a classic item in the geological literature of Svalbard. Many ridges, peaks and glaciers on Spitsbergen were then given Polish names that exist officially on topographic maps to this day. One of the glaciers there is named – Różyckibreen. The achievements of Stefan Zbigniew Różycki during the first expedition and his subsequent scientific and organizational activities were an inspiration for the establishment of next expeditions and a strong basis for the intensive development of polar research in Poland.

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Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MNiSW, umowa nr POPUL/SP/0154/2024/02 w ramach programu "Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki II" - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki (2025).