Bigourdan Fjord
| Bigourdan Fjord | ||
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| Waters | Laubeuf Fjord and Jones Canal | |
| Land mass | Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula and Pourquoi-Pas Island | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ S , 67 ° 19 ′ W | |
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| width | Max. 3 km | |
| length | approx. 19 km | |
| Islands | Guardian Rock , Petty Rocks , Swash Reef , Warden Rock | |
| Tributaries | Reid glacier | |
The Bigourdan Fjord ( French Fiord Bigourdan ) is a fjord with east-west orientation, which lies between the Pourquoi-Pas Island and the southwestern section of the Arrowsmith Peninsula on the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula .
He was discovered by participants in the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who named him after the French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan (1851-1932). A rough mapping was carried out by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , which was followed by a more precise survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1948-1950).
Web links
- Bigourdan Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bigourdan Fjord on geographic.org (English)