Stella Creek
| Stella Creek | ||
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| Connects waters | French passage | |
| with water | Skua Creek and Cornice Channel | |
| Separates land mass | Winter Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| of land mass | Galíndez Island , Argentine Islands , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
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| Geographical location | 65 ° 14 ′ 57 ″ S , 64 ° 15 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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The Stella Creek is a narrow and winding strait in the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the group of the Argentine Islands , it runs from Thumb Rock to the southeastern end of Winter Island and separates the latter from the eastern Galíndez Island .
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a survey in 1935 and named it after the motorboat used for it Stella Polaris .
Web links
- Stella Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stella Creek on geographic.org (English)