Seal Creek

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Coordinates: 62 ° 12 ′  S , 58 ° 27 ′  W

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The Seal Creek ( English ; Polish Potok Foczy 'Robbenbach' ) is a meltwater- carrying stream on King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It flows from the southern section of the Sphinx Glacier parallel to the Błaszyk moraine to Admiralty Bay .

Polish scientists named it after the colonies of elephant seals and ear seals bordering the stream .

See also

literature

  • John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , pp. 1385–1386 (English)

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