Walbach (Drakestrasse)
Coordinates: 62 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W.
| Walbach | ||
| location | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| River system | Walbach | |
| origin | Whale lake | |
| muzzle | into the whale bay of Drakestrasse
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| Navigable | No | |
The Walbach is a creek in the northwest of the Fildes Peninsula of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It drains the Walsee west-north-westerly direction - parallel to the north-flowing granite Bach - to Whale Bay and reaches directly southwest of the peninsula, it receives from the Granite Bay separates and in the extension of Whale Island is located.
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 was together with numerous others until then unnamed geographic features of the Fildes peninsula and renamed the Scientific Committee on Antarctic research (Scientific Committee on Antarctic research, SCAR) reported.
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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. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map (1984) on page 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed December 25, 2018
- ↑ Walbach in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 24, 2018