Baeyer Canyon
Coordinates: 69 ° 17 ' S , 0 ° 32' E
The Baeyer Canyon is a deep-sea trench in the Lasarew Sea off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It lies between 68 ° 52 'and 69 ° 42' south latitude and between 0 ° 30 'and 0 ° 35' east longitude .
It has been named since 1997 at the suggestion of the surveyor and glaciologist Heinrich Hinze from the Alfred Wegener Institute . It is named after Johann Jacob Baeyer (1794–1885), the founder of European grade measurement.
Web links
- Baeyer Canyon in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Baeyer Canyon in the database of the Marine gazetteer (English)