Maxwell Bay
| Maxwell Bay | ||
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 The Artigas station in the north of the bay on King George Island |
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island and Nelson Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 15 ′ S , 58 ° 51 ′ W | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| Greatest water depth | 300 m | |
| Islands | Ardley Island , Chotdae Rock , Diomedea Island , Geologists Island , Two Summit Island | |
| Tributaries | Holzbach, Schiffsbach | |
The Maxwell Bay is a bay between King George Iceland and Nelson Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Your wide entrance is on the southwest side. It is separated from the Fildes Strait on the northwest side by some surf rocks.
The British navigator and seal hunter James Weddell named the bay during his Antarctic voyage (1822-1824) as Maxwell Strait . It is named after Lieutenant Francis Maxwell (1789–1863), who had served with Weddell in the Royal Navy from 1813 to 1814 on the brig Avon . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee modified the naming in 1960 to better reflect the nature of the property.
Maxwell Bay has a high density of year-round manned research stations. From east to west these are the Argentine Carlini Station on the Potter Peninsula and the South Korean King Sejong Station on the Barton Peninsula . On the Fildes Peninsula , which forms the west bank of the bay, the Uruguayan Artigas station , the Russian Bellingshausen station and in their immediate vicinity the Chilean stations Escudero and Frei , the largest stations in the area , lie from north to south . The Great Wall of China Station is in the south of the peninsula . The Chilean measuring station Julio Ripamonti , which is only occupied in summer, is located within the bay on the Ardley Island off the Fildes Peninsula . Chile also operates Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Airport .
Germany operates the Dallmann laboratory attached to the Argentine station .
The Czech research station ECO Nelson is located on the bank of Nelson Island directly opposite the bay .
Web links
- Maxwell Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Maxwell Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Umweltbundesamt (Germany) : Environmental monitoring on King George Island. Online article from March 27, 2013. With a detailed map of the Maxwell Bay Region by Christina Braun ( FSU Jena )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Peter, Christina Büßer, Osama Mustafa, Simone Pfeiffer: Evaluation of the degree of endangerment of the areas Fildes Peninsula and Ardley Island and development of management plans for designation as specially protected or managed areas (PDF; 28.5 MB). Federal Environment Agency, research report 203 13 124, UBA-FB 001155, 2008 (= Texts 19/2008), p. 54.