Alice Creek (Antarctica)
| Alice Creek | ||
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| Waters | Port Lockroy | |
| Land mass | Wiencke Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 49 ′ 41 ″ S , 63 ° 29 ′ 14 ″ W | |
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The Alice Creek ( French Crique Alice , Havre Alice , Spanish Caleta Alicia , Caleta Alice ) is a secondary bay in the southern part of Port Lockroy on Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition , led by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot, named them after the wife of Édouard Lockroy (1840-1913), a French politician and vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, who helped Charcot to get the support of the French government for his expedition win.
Web links
- Alice Creek in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alice Creek on geographic.org (English)