Baie de la Christiane
| Baie de la Christiane | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Land mass | Adélieland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 42 '48 " S , 140 ° 30' 46" O | |
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The Baie de la Christiane ( French ) is a bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland . It lies between two headlands in the north of Cape Bienvenue .
The French polar explorer Paul-Émile Victor named it after the Cristiane , one of two French survey vessels that sank in a storm in the neighboring Baie des Épaves in the Antarctic summer of 1961/1962 .
Web links
- Christiane, Baie de la in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and French)