Admiralty Bay
| Admiralty Bay | ||
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 Icy Admiralty Bay (2007) |
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 10 ′ S , 58 ° 25 ′ W | |
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| width | 8 kilometers | |
| depth | 16 km | |
| Islands | Chabrier Rock , Denais Stack | |
| Tributaries | Admiral Glacier , Baranowski Glacier , Dead Glacier , Dragon Glacier , Ferguson Glacier , Lange Glacier , Nature Conservation Glacier , Petrified Forest Creek , Polar Committee Icefall , Rybak Glacier , Sphinx Glacier , Znosko Glacier | |
 Map of Admiralty Bay |
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The Admiralty Bay is an irregularly shaped bay on King George Iceland in the South Shetland Islands . Your approximately 8 km wide entrance is marked by Demay Point and Martins Head .
The name first appears in 1822 on a map by Captain George Powell (1794-1824), a British seal hunter. It is named after the British Admiralty .
There are two permanently manned Antarctic stations on Admiralty Bay, the Polish Henryk Arctowski station and the Brazilian Commandante Ferraz station . The Peruvian Machu Picchu Station and the US Captain Pieter J. Lenie Station are only operated seasonally .
Admiralty Bay and its environs are protected by the Antarctic Treaty as “ Antarctica No. 1 Specially Managed Area ” . Part of the west coast is occupied by Special Protected Area No. 128 . This is also designated by BirdLife International as Important Bird Area AQ046. In the four-year average 2009/12 7032 pairs were Adéliepinguins , 4736 pairs of donkeys penguin and 950 pairs of reins penguin counted. Moreover breed here the giant petrel , the Cape Petrel , the snowy sheathbill , the skua , the Kelp Gull , the Arctic tern , the Wilson's Storm Petrel and the black-bellied storm petrel .
Web links
- Admiralty Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Admiralty Bay on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Susie M. Grant, Colin M. Harris: King George Island . In: Beau Riffenburgh (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Antarctic . tape 1 . Routledge, New York and London 2007, ISBN 978-0-415-97024-2 , pp. 572-578 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
- ↑ ASMA 1: Admiralty Bay, King George Island in the Antarctic Protected Areas Database on the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website (English, Spanish, French, Russian), accessed November 16, 2019.
- ^ ASPA 128: Western shores of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands in the Antarctic Protected Areas Database on the Antarctic Treaty Secretariat website (English, Spanish, French, Russian), accessed November 16, 2019.
- ↑ West Admiralty Bay, King George Island (AQ046) in the Data Zone at BirdLife International, accessed on December 18, 2019 (English).