Xianshui Xi

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Coordinates: 62 ° 14 ′ 33 ″  S , 59 ° 0 ′ 58 ″  W.

Xianshui Xi
仙水 溪
location Stansbury Peninsula , Nelson Island , South Shetland Islands
River system Xianshui Xi
origin Lake Niudu Hu
muzzle into the bay of Cehuixuezhe Wan der Fildes Strait

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Xianshui Xi ( Chinese  仙水 溪 , Pinyin Xiānshuǐ Xī  - "Holy Water Brook") is the name of a rushing brook on the Stansbury Peninsula in the north of Nelson Island , one of the South Shetland Islands . It drains the lake Niudu Hu to the northwest which also briefly Cèhuì Wān ( Chinese  测绘湾  - "mapping bay") called Bay Cèhuìxuézhě Wān ( 测绘学者湾  - "Kartographenbucht") on the west coast of the peninsula.

The Chinese scientists who carried out surveying work there in 1986 saw the area with the "singing" brook as a sacred place and "wonderland" and therefore gave the brook its reverential name.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 仙水 溪 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 at polar.org.cn, accessed on February 10, 2020
  2. ↑ cf. 测绘 湾 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 and 测绘 学者 湾 - 中国 极地 考察 知识库 at polar.org.cn (accessed on February 10, 2020)
  3. ↑ Xianshui Xi in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed February 10, 2020