Börgen Bay
| Börgen Bay | ||
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| Waters | Neumayer Canal | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 63 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 6.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Hooper Glacier , William Glacier | |
The Börgen Bay ( French Baie Börgen ) is a bay on the southeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago .
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . He named the bay after the German astronomer and geophysicist Karl Nikolai Jensen Börgen (1843–1909).
Web links
- Börgen Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Börgen Bay on geographic.org (English)