Holzbach (Maxwell Bay)

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Coordinates: 62 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  W.

Holzbach
location Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
River system Holzbach
source at the foot of Davies Heights
muzzle into Rocky Cove (side bay of Maxwell Bay )

Navigable No

The Holzbach is a creek on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . Its two source streams arise at the foot of Davies Heights (labeled on the map from 1984 as "Central Mountains"). After their confluence, it flows southeast over a series of beach terraces (and in the 1980s past a tank farm) to Rocky Cove ("stone bay" on the map), a northern branch of Maxwell Bay . The Kiesbach flows further to the southwest , and the Steinbach further northeast into the 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 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 September 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Holzbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on September 2, 2019