Elephant Seal Bay
| Elephant Seal Bay | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 1 km | |
| depth | approx. 1 km | |
| Tributaries | Glacial stream , elephant-Bach , Moosbach | |
The elephant seals Bay is a small bay of the Drake Passage on the west coast of King George Iceland , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is located in the northwest of the Fildes Peninsula , south of the Berlin Islands ; to the south is the granite bay . Glacier , elephant seals and moss streams flow into the bay .
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 ), numerous previously unnamed geographical objects were discovered renamed the Filders Peninsula. This bay is named after the southern elephant seal .
In the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the bay is mistakenly equated with the Elephant Seal Cove on Bransfieldstrasse east of King George Bay , apparently because the data set reported by Germany to the SCAR contains no description and the two bays exactly one Longitude apart on the same island. Instead, it is more likely to be equated with Gradziński Cove ( 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 55 ′ 30 ″ W ), which is described as "south of the West Foreland ".
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. Reports on polar research Nr. 24, November 1985 map on page 14 (there as " Seelefant enbucht" labeled). hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed July 24, 2018
- ↑ Source 32 of the Directory of German Geographical Names of the Antarctic of the Standing Committee on Geographical Names , accessed on August 15, 2017
- ↑ Elephant Seal Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 15, 2017
- ↑ Elephant Seal Cove in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 15, 2017
- ↑ 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. 282. Retrieved on August 16, 2017
- ↑ Gradzinski Cove in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed August 16, 2017