Vahsel Bay

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Vahselbucht
Herzog-Ernst-Bucht
Waters Weddell Sea
Land mass East Antarctica
Geographical location 77 ° 49 ′  S , 35 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 77 ° 49 ′  S , 35 ° 7 ′  W
Vahsel Bay (Antarctica)
Vahsel Bay
width approx. 11.3 km
depth approx. 16.1 km
Tributaries Lerchenfeld Glacier , Penck Glacier , Schweitzer Glacier

The Vahsel Bay (meantime Herzog-Ernst-bay ) is a bay , the west coast of between the Prince Regent Luitpold-country and the eastern boundary of the Filchner-Ronne ice shelf in the Antarctic located. The Vahsel Bay has an extension of 7  miles (approx. 11.3 km) and a maximum depth of 10 miles (approx. 16.1 km) in the estuary to the Weddell Sea . The Schweitzer Glacier and the Lerchenfeld Glacier flow into the bay .

Discovery story

The bay was discovered during the second German Antarctic expedition (1911-1913) under Wilhelm Filchner . Filchner named it after Richard Vahsel (1868–1912), the captain of the expedition ship Germany . Vahsel died during the expedition. Filchner later renamed it Herzog-Ernst-Bucht (after Ernst II. Von Sachsen-Altenburg ) after large parts of the surrounding ice had broken away and a much larger bay had formed as a result. However, this renaming did not prevail over the long term.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Standing Committee on Geographical Names : Directory of German-language geographical names of the Antarctic (introduction) (directory of sources) , here sources 6 and 64.Retrieved on December 19, 2019
  2. ↑ Vahselbucht in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 19, 2019
  3. ↑ a b c Bertrand, Kenneth J. and Alberts, Fred G .: Geographic Names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 112 (Duke Ernst Bay) (accessed January 8, 2013).
  4. ↑ antarctica-geography.findthedata.org  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Bay: Vahsel Bay, Antarctica, accessed March 11, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / antarctica-geography.findthedata.org  
  5. ↑ geographic.org , Vahsel Bay: Antarctica, accessed March 11, 2012