Gletscherbach (Drakestrasse)

Coordinates: 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  W.

Glacier stream
location	Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
River system	Glacier stream
origin	Bellingshausen Dome
muzzle	to the elephant seal bay on Drakestrasse
Navigable	No

The Glacier Stream is a stream on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . In the north of the peninsula it rises from the Bellingshausen Dome ( labeled on the German map from 1984 as the Collin Ice Cap) and flows in a north-westerly direction to the elephant seal bay on Drakestrasse . Of the three tributaries of the bay, it is the only glacial stream .

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 brook was together with numerous others until then unnamed geographic features of the Fildes peninsula and renamed the Scientific Committee on Antarctic research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic research, SCAR) reported.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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
2. ↑ Gletscherbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 3, 2018