Granite bay
| Granite bay | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | less than 1 km | |
| depth | less than 1 km | |
| Tributaries | Granite stream | |
The Granite 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 the northeast of three bays in the west of the Fildes Peninsula , which line up between the Elephant Seal Bay in the northeast and Bothy Bay in the southwest (labeled "Seebärenbucht" on the German map from 1984). The granite stream flows from the southeast into the southern 'corner' of the roughly rectangular bay . In the southwest, the closing Whale Bay , and in front of the promontory that separates the two bays is Whale Island .
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 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Granite Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on October 2, 2017