Central passage
| Central passage ( valley watershed ) |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| region | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | ||
| Watershed | Kliffbach , Biologenbach ( Drakestrasse ) | Station Creek (Kiteschbach) ( Ardley Cove / Maxwell Bay ) | |
| Valley locations | Aeródromo Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin | Bellingshausen Station , Base Eduardo Frei , Villa Las Estrellas | |
| Mountains | Davies Heights , South Mountains | ||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 12 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ W | ||
The Central Passage is a valley pass in the southwest of King George Island , the largest of the South Shetland Islands . In the center of the Fildes Peninsula , it connects the Davies Heights (labeled as "Central Mountains " on the German map from 1984) in the north and the southern mountains in the south, the northwest platform in the west with the beach terraces of Ardley Cove ("Ardley Bay" on the map, Side bay of Maxwell Bay ) in the east. The largest lake on the peninsula, Lake Kitezh (Kiteschsee), is located in the passage, as is the Chilean research station Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva (1984 Teniente R. Marsh station ) with the civilian settlement of Villa Las Estrellas and the Aeródromo Teniente Rodolfo Marsh Martin airfield as well the Russian Bellingshausen station .
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 passage along 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 (1984) on page 14. hdl: 10013 / epic.10024.d001 , accessed on December 24, 2018
- ↑ Central passage in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed on December 24, 2018