Whale bay
| Whale bay | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Fildes Peninsula ( King George Island ) | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | less than 1 km | |
| depth | less than 1 km | |
| Tributaries | Walbach | |
The Whale 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 west of the Fildes Peninsula , between granite bay in the northeast and mussel bay in the southwest. The Walbach , which drains the Walsee, flows into the eastern corner of the roughly square bay . To the north of the bay - in front of the headland that separates it from the granite bay - lies Whale Island .
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 bay 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.
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 on p. 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on July 25, 2018
- ↑ Walbucht in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on October 2, 2017