Bahía Cordovez

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Bahía Cordovez
Waters Wilhelmina Bay
Land mass Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Geographical location 64 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 61 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 64 ° 38 ′ 0 ″  S , 61 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  W
Bahía Cordovez (Antarctic Peninsula)
Bahía Cordovez
width 3 km

The Bahía Cordovez ( English ; in Argentina Bahía González ) is a 3 km wide side bay of Wilhelmina Bay on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Daedalus Point in the north and Lana Point in the south. In front of it is Brooklyn Island .

Chilean scientists named them after the Chilean hydrographer Enrique Cordovez Madariaga (1895-1965), who had participated in an Argentine Antarctic expedition as a visiting scientist on the Primero de Mayo in 1943 . The namesake of the Argentine name has not been passed down.

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