Porębski Cove

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Porębski Cove glacier bay
Waters Drake Street
Land mass King George Island
Geographical location 62 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 62 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  W
Porębski Cove (South Shetland Islands)
Porębski Cove

The Porębski Cove [ pɔrɛmpskʲi ] ( Polish Zatoka Porębskiego ), German and Glacier Bay is a small bay of the Drake Passage at the John Paul II Coast of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is located north of the West Foreland ( Zachodnie Przedpole ) at the transition from the glaciated northwest coast of the island to the ice-free Fildes Peninsula .

The bay was named in 1981 after the geologist Szczepan Porębski, who took part in the Polish expedition to King George Island in 1980/81. Shortly afterwards (between 1982 and 1984) a German expedition to the Fildes Peninsula led by Dietrich Barsch (Geographical Institute of the University of Heidelberg ) and Gerhard Stäblein (Geomorphological Laboratory of the Free University of Berlin ) gave the bay the descriptive name Gletscherbucht. Both the German name and the English form of the Polish names have been submitted to the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research reported (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, SCAR).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Glacier Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on August 12, 2017
  2. ↑ a b List of place-names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 292. Retrieved on August 12, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c Porebski Cove in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 12, 2017
  4. ↑ 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. Reports on polar research No. 24, November 1985, map (1984) on p. 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 24, 2018
  5. ↑ K. Birkenmajer: Further new place names for King George Island and Nelson Island, South Shetland Islands (West Antarctica), introduced in 1981. - Stud. Geol. Polon. 79, 1984, pp. 163-177. Quoted from Cisak (1992): List of place-names ..., p. 301. Retrieved on August 12, 2017
  6. ↑ Source 32 of the Directory of German Geographical Names of the Antarctic of the Standing Committee on Geographical Names , accessed on August 12, 2017