Moraine stream

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Coordinates: 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  W.

Moraine stream
location West Foreland , Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
River system Moraine stream
source on the Northern Collins Moraine
muzzle to Drakestrasse

Navigable No

The moraine creek is a creek north of the Fildes Peninsula off King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is the southernmost of three streams on the West Foreland , the northernmost area of ​​the peninsula. The stream rises from the Northern Collins moraine belonging to the Bellingshausen Dome ( Collin Ice Cap) and flows in a west-northwest direction to Drakestrasse . It reaches this immediately east of the headland that separates the West Foreland from the Elephant Seal Bay . Geschiebebach and Schrammenbach connect to the north .

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.

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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 December 25, 2018
  2. ^ Moränenbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 24, 2018