Baie de l'Évelyne

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Baie de l'Évelyne
Waters Lake D'Urville
Land mass Adélieland , East Antarctica
Geographical location 66 ° 44 ′ 30 ″  S , 140 ° 54 ′ 30 ″  O Coordinates: 66 ° 44 ′ 30 ″  S , 140 ° 54 ′ 30 ″  E
Baie de l'Évelyne (Antarctica)
Baie de l'Évelyne

The Baie de l'Évelyne ( French ) is a bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It lies between two headlands in the north of Cape Jules .

The French polar explorer Paul-Émile Victor named it after the Évelyne , one of two French survey vessels that sank in a storm in the neighboring Baie des Épaves in the Antarctic summer of 1961/1962 .

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