Klotz Valley
| Klotz Valley | ||
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| location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Waters | Glacier stream | |
| Mountains | Northwest platform | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 9 '24 " S , 58 ° 56' 9" W | |
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| climate | sub-Antarctic - oceanic tundra climate | |
| flora | gappy moss and lichen tundra | |
The Klotz Valley ( Spanish Valle Klotz ) is a valley at the northern end of the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . A brook flows through the wide, flat valley and drains the Bellingshausen Dome ; there are also some still waters in the valley.
The valley was named Valle Klotz on a Chilean map in 1996 ; the British Antarctic Place-names Committee (APC) announced the name in 2007 in English as in use (use) to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research ( Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR ), although the definition is not the quality requirements of the APC equivalent.
At the location designated by the coordinate location of the flows on a German map from 1984 glacial stream from the Bellingshausen Dome (there Collinseiskappe called) for elephant seals Bay .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klotz Valley in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed October 19, 2019
- ^ Dietrich Barsch and Gerhard Stäblein (1984): Map of the Fildes Peninsula. In: 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, page 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on October 19, 2019