Artanes Bay
| Artanes Bay | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 1 ′ S , 61 ° 11 ′ W | |
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| width | 14 km | |
| depth | 6.2 km | |
| Tributaries | Rogosch glacier | |
The Artanes Bay (English, Bulgarian залив Артанес saliw Artanes ) is a 14 km wide and 6.2 km long bay in the Oscar-II. coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is west of Cape Fairweather and east of Shiver Point . It was created as a result of the break-up of the Larsen Ice Shelf in 2002 and the subsequent retreat of the Rogosch Glacier .
It was mapped in 2012. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in the same year after the ancient Thracian settlement Artanes in northwestern Bulgaria .
Web links
- Artanes Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)