Bahía Esteverena
| Bahía Esteverena | ||
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| Waters | Herbert-Sund and Erebus-und-Terror-Golf | |
| Land mass | Vega Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 54 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Bahía Esteverena is a bay on the south coast of the West Antarctic Vega Island . It lies between Cape Lamb in the west and False Island Point in the east. The bay represents the passage from Herbert Sound to the Erebus and Terror Gulf .
Argentine scientists named her after Corvette Captain Horacio Alberto Esteverena (* 1914), the ship's captain of the Granville on an Argentine Antarctic expedition that ran from 1947 to 1948.
Web links
- Esteverena, bahía in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)