Arthur Harbor
| Arthur Harbor | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 46 ′ 12 ″ S , 64 ° 3 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| length | 800 m | |
| Islands | Elephant Rocks , Humble Island , Janus Island , Jeffrey Rock , Split Rock , Torgersen Island | |
The Arthur Harbor is a small bay on the southwest coast of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It is located there between Bonaparte Point and Norsel Point .
During the fourth French Antarctic expedition of the polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , a rough mapping was carried out. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a survey in 1955 and set up a surveying station near the head of the bay. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1956 after Oswald Raynor Arthur (1905–1973), Governor of the Falkland Islands from 1954 to 1957.
Web links
- Arthur Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Arthur Harbor on geographic.org (English)