Granite stream
Coordinates: 62 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W.
| Granite stream | ||
| location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| River system | Granite stream | |
| source | on the northwest platform | |
| muzzle | into the granite bay of Drakestrasse
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| Navigable | No | |
The Granite Brook is a short brook located northwest of the Fildes Peninsula off King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It flows west-north-westerly direction - parallel to the south flowing Walbach - the Granite Bay to the east and reaches the headland, it receives from the Whale Bay separates and in the extension of Whale Island is located.
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.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 December 25, 2018
- ↑ Granitbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 24, 2018