Ship bay
| Ship bay | ||
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| Waters | Maxwell Bay ( Bransfield Street ) | |
| Land mass | King George Island | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 11 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 1.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Schiffsbach | |
The ship bay is a side bay of Maxwell Bay in the south of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . The bay stretches between Jasper Point in the west and Punta Durán (about one kilometer west of Nebles Point ) in the east and cuts only a little into the land. The Schiffsbach coming from the Bellingshausen Dome (Collin Ice Cap) flows into the bay from the northwest .
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 bay 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.
Not far from the bay is the Uruguayan research station Base Artigas (the former location of the Refugio Collins is shown on the German map from 1984 ). The complex of beach terraces on the bay is called Artigas Beach .
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 July 24, 2018
- ↑ Ship bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on March 3, 2018