Petrified Forest Creek
| Petrified Forest Creek | ||
 Petrified Forest Creek, behind it the Arctowski station buildings |
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| Data | ||
| location | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| River system | Petrified Forest Creek | |
| Headwaters |
Panorama Ridge 62 ° 9 ′ 52 ″ S , 58 ° 29 ′ 32 ″ W |
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| muzzle |
Admiralty Bay Coordinates: 62 ° 9 ′ 29 " S , 58 ° 28 ′ 30" W 62 ° 9 ′ 29 " S , 58 ° 28 ′ 30" W |
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| Mouth height |
0 m
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| length | about 1.6 km | |
| Left tributaries | Geographers Creek | |
The Petrified Forest Creek ( English ; Polish Potok Skamieniały Las 'Petrified Forest Brook' ) is a small stream on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
The approximately 1,600 m long Petrified Forest Creek flows west of the Arctowski station to Admiralty Bay . About 400 m above the mouth, Geographers Creek meets the creek from the left.
Polish scientists named it in 1980 after the found here fossils of trees from the Tertiary .
Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap
See also
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1209 (English)
