Alvaro Bay
| Alvaro Bay | ||
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| Waters | Paradise Harbor | |
| Land mass | Bryde Island , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 51 '34 " S , 63 ° 0' 32" W | |
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| Islands | Islote Ricardo | |
The Alvaro Bay is a bay on the north coast of Bryde Island before the Danco Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . Your entrance is between the headlands of Punta Primera Junta in the west and Punta Gutiérrez in the east.
Participants in the Argentine Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1950 to 1951, named her Caleta Alvaro after an officer on the rescue ship on this research trip. In Chile, on the other hand, the bay is called Caleta McIntyre , named after Ronald McIntyre Mendoza (* 1927), captain of the ship Piloto Pardo on the twenty-fourth Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1969-1970).
Web links
- Alvaro Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Alvaro Cove on geographic.org (English)