Hydrographers Cove
| Hydrographers Cove бухта Гидрографов |
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| Waters | Maxwell Bay | |
| Land mass | Ardley Island , Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 12 ′ 51 ″ S , 58 ° 57 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 1.5 km | |
| depth | approx. 2 km | |
| Islands | Geologists Island | |
| Tributaries | Hydrographenbach , Windbach , Sturmvogelbach , Nebelbach , Flechtenbach | |
The Hydrographers Cove ( Russian бухта Гидрографов buchta Gidrografow, "Bay of Hydrographs ") is a side bay of Maxwell Bay in the southwest of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It separates the southwest of Ardley Island from the Fildes Peninsula . In the bay is Geologists Island , and north of the isthmus , which only dries out at low tide and connects Ardley Island with the Fildes Peninsula, the Ardley Cove joins (on the German map from 1984 with "Hydrographenbucht", "Geologeninsel" and "Ardleybucht “Labeled).
The bay was named бухта Гидрографов on a map from 1968 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition from Bellingshausen Station . On an English-language map by the same authors from 1971, the bay is labeled "Gidrografov Inlet". The British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) translated the Russian name into English in 1980.
The Great Wall of China station is on the bay . Hydrograph , wind , petrel , fog and lichen stream flow into the bay from the Fildes peninsula .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Hydrographers Cove (United Kingdom) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on August 14, 2017
- ^ A b Hydrographers Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey , accessed August 14, 2017
- ↑ 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
Web links
- Hydrographers Cove on geographic.org (English)