Bellingshausen Dome
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Collin ice cap
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| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Type | icecap | |
| length | 5 km (roughly estimated) | |
| Altitude range | 200 m - | |
| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 '54 " S , 58 ° 53' 17" W | |
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| drainage | Drake Street and Maxwell Bay | |
The Bellingshausen Dome ( Polish Kopuła Bellingshausena ) is an approximately 200 meter high ice cap on King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It forms the southwestern extension of the Arctowski Dome and represents the northeastern border of the Fildes Peninsula . It appears for the first time in 1973 on a Soviet map under the name Малый купол ( Maly kupol, 'Small Dome') as an independently named object. On German, Brazilian, Chilean and Uruguayan maps from the 1980s and early 1990s, the ice cap is labeled as Collin Ice Cap ( Portuguese and Spanish Glaciar Collins ). The names Northern and Southern Collins Moraine are based on this name (apparently after Collins Harbor ) .
The 1984 was made and in English form of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research reported (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR) Polish designation refers to the nearby Soviet Bellingshausen Station . In 2007, the British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) also reported the designation to the SCAR.
The ice cap drains both to the northwest to the Drake Strait (for example by calving into Porębski Cove [“glacier bay ” on the German map from 1984] and across the glacier creek into the Elephant Seal Bay ) and south to Maxwell Bay (by calving in Collins Harbor and across the ship stream to the ship bay ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d List of place-names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 275. Accessed March 3, 2018
- ↑ a b c d Bellingshausen Dome (POL) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ a b c d e f Bellingshausen Dome (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 3, 2018
- ↑ a b 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. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map (1984) on page 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 24, 2018