Biologist Bay
| Biologists bay Shengwu Wan ( 生物湾 ) |
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 59 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | approx. 1 km | |
| Tributaries | Biologenbach | |
The biologists Bay is a small bay of the Drake Passage on the west coast of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in the southwest of the Fildes Peninsula , south of the Gemel Peaks ; its coast is flat. From the east the Biologenbach flows into the bay, which has its source near the Chilean research station Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva (near Villa Las Estrellas ); One kilometer south-southwest is the Horatio Bay , which borders the Flat Top Peninsula to the northeast, and just under two kilometers north-northeast is the Skua Bay .
As part of two German expeditions to the Fildes Peninsula in 1981/82 and 1983/84 under the direction of Dietrich Barsch (Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg ) and Gerhard Stäblein (Geomorphological Laboratory of the Free University of Berlin ), the bay was together with others to then unnamed geographic features of the Fildes peninsula and renamed the Scientific Committee on Antarctic research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic research, SCAR) reported. In 1986 the bay was mapped again by a Chinese expedition and reported to the SCAR as Shengwu Wan ( Chinese 生物 湾 , Pinyin Shēngwù Wān - "living beings or biology bay"). In contrast to the German dataset in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , the Chinese one contains a short description in which the reason for the name is given that there is a lot of moss and many seals there in summer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shengwu Wan in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed September 24, 2017
- ↑ 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. Reports on polar research No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 24, 2018
- ↑ Biologists' book in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on September 24, 2017
- ↑ 生物 湾 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 at polar.org.cn, accessed on January 29, 2020