Horatiobach

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Coordinates: 62 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 59 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  W.

Horatiobach
location Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
River system Horatiobach
source north of the Horatio Stump
muzzle into the Horatiobucht

Navigable No

The Horatiobach is a short brook on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . In the southwest of the peninsula it springs north of the hill Horatio Stump and flows first to the west, then north to Horatiobucht the Drake Passage , in the western part of it flows.

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 previously unnamed geographical objects on the Fildes Peninsula were renamed. The creek and the bay was named after Horatio Stump and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR) reported.

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  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 on page 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed November 4, 2018
  2. ↑ Horatiobach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 4, 2018