Boisguehenneuc Bay
| Boisguehenneuc Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 58 ′ 40 ″ S , 61 ° 51 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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| width | 6.9 km | |
| depth | 2.4 km | |
| Islands | Raklitsa Island | |
| Tributaries | Schterna glacier | |
The Boisguehenneuc Bay (English; Bulgarian залив Боагееньок saliw Boageenjok ) is a 6.9 km wide and 2.4 km long bay on the northwest coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located northeast of Bebresh Point and southwest of the western foothills of the Crane Peninsula . The Schterna Glacier flows into its head end .
British scientists mapped them in 1978. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after the French lieutenant Charles Marc du Boisguehenneuc (1740–1778), who on February 14, 1772 on the Kerguelen the first certified landing on a land mass south of the Antarctic convergence had carried out.
Web links
- Boisguehenneuc Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)