Belgica Stream
Coordinates: 62 ° 39 ′ S , 61 ° 1 ′ W
The Belgica Stream is a 1 km long and maximally 40 cm deep river with diffuse branches in the upper reaches of the Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . On the Byers Peninsula , it flows about 1 km west of the Negro Hill south to the South Beaches , where he close to the Dometa Point in the Bransfield Strait opens. Its bank areas and shallow water zones are populated by cyanobacteria , mosses and green algae .
Spanish scientists named it in 2013 after the mosquito species Belgica antarctica , which can be found here.
See also
Web links
- Belgica Stream in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)