West Foreland
| West Foreland | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| location | King George Island ( South Shetland Islands ) | |
| Waters 1 | Drake Street | |
| Waters 2 | Porębski Cove | |
| Waters 3 | Gradziński Cove | |
| width | 1.3 km | |
The West Foreland ( Polish Zachodnie Przedpole ) is an ice-free headland in the west of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . It is bounded in the east by the Bellingshausen Dome ( Collin Ice Cap ), which is bounded here by the Northern Collins moraine , as well as in the north by the Porębski Cove (glacier bay ) and in the south by the Gradziński Cove (probably identical with the Elephant Seal Bay ).
The almost one and a half kilometer wide promontory, which protrudes 500 to 700 meters into the sea ( Drakestrasse ), forms the northernmost area of the Fildes Peninsula . In the north and south a headland juts out into the open sea, and north of the southern headland are the Berlin islands . The Schrammenbach , the Geschiebebach and the Moränenbach flow over the West Foreland into the sea.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d List of place-names in Antarctica introduced by Poland in 1978-1990. Compiled by Jan Cisak. Polish Polar Research 3, 3-4, Warsaw 1992, pp. 273-302; here p. 299. Retrieved December 25, 2018
- ↑ a b c West Foreland in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed December 25, 2018
- ↑ 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