Sturmvogelbach

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Coordinates: 62 ° 13 ′ 0 ″  S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″  W.

Sturmvogelbach
location Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands
River system Sturmvogelbach
source in the southeast of the Trollberg
muzzle to Hydrographers Cove (side bay of Maxwell Bay )

Navigable No

The Sturmvogelbach is a creek in the southeast of the Fildes Peninsula off King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It rises in the center of the Südberge at the southeastern foot of the Trollberg , flows in the form of an inclined ∫ to the northeastern Petrel Lake (labeled as "Sturmvogelsee" on the German map from 1984) and after flowing through the lake further east over beach terraces to Hydrographers Cove ( “Hydrographs Bay ” on the map), a side bay of Maxwell Bay . He reaches the bay in the area where the Great Wall of China Station was built in 1985 .

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 brook - based on the name of the lake - renamed along with numerous other hitherto unnamed geographic features of the Fildes peninsula and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic research, SCAR) reported.

Further to the east on King George Island , a tributary of Admiralty Bay bears the name Petrel Creek , which also means “Sturmvogelbach”.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 February 2, 2020
  2. ↑ Sturmvogelbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on February 2, 2020