Normsee
| Normsee | ||
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| Geographical location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Tributaries | none | |
| Drain | Normbach → Norma Cove ( Maxwell Bay ) | |
| Location close to the shore | Bellingshausen Station , Base Científica Antártica Artigas | |
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 56 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Normsee is a small lake on the Fildes Peninsula of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is located at the foot of Davies Heights (labeled "Zentralberge" on the German map from 1984), between Slalom Lake and the Russian Bellingshausen station in the west and Profound Lake ("Tiefer See" on the map) and the Uruguayan base Artigas in the east (built at the end of 1984, the previous location of the Chilean refuge Refugio Collins is shown on the map) and drains over the Normbach to the east to Norma Cove (“Normbucht” on the map).
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 ), Lake and Bach were together with numerous further until then unnamed geographic features of the Fildes peninsula renamed - in reference to the Russian name of the bay, бухта Норма (buchta Norma), which can be translated as "standard bay" into German - and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 on November 10, 2019
- ↑ Normsee in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on November 10, 2019