Artigas Beach

Artigas Beach
location	Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
Waters	Ship Bay , Maxwell Bay
Geographical location	62 ° 11 '6 "  S , 58 ° 53' 56"  W Coordinates: 62 ° 11 '6 "  S , 58 ° 53' 56"  W
length	1.5 km
nature	Scree beach , several beach terraces

The Artigas Beach is the beach the ship bay in the north of Maxwell Bay of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . The scree beach consists of a series of beach terraces and was named by the British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) in 2007 after the northwestern Uruguayan research station Base Científica Antártica Artigas .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Reports on polar research No. 24, November 1985, map (1984) on page 14 ( the previous location of Refugio Collins is shown at the location of today's Artigas base ). hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed November 24, 2018
2. ^ Artigas Beach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 24, 2018