South Passage
| South Passage | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
| Watershed | Drake Street | Windbach ( Hydrographers Cove ) | |
| Mountains | South mountains | ||
| map | |||
|
|||
| Coordinates | 62 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The South Passage is a mountain pass in the southern mountains of the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . 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 pass was awarded along 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.
Between the Büdelberg in the north and the center of the mountain range in the south, the pass connects the valley of the Windbach in the east (known internationally as the Saunders Valley ) with the northwest platform in the west: on the overview map on page 14 of the expedition report, the upper area of the Windbach valley is labeled with the southern passage , and on the detailed map of the Windbach Valley (page 39), an overflow to the west, towards the northwest platform, is shown at the small lake that forms the distinctive bend in the course of the Windbach.
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, hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , page 16, maps on pages 14 and 39.Retrieved March 22, 2020
- ↑ Südpassage in SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 22, 2020