Bolsón Cove
| Bolsón Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 9 '10 " S , 63 ° 5' 48" W | |
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| Tributaries | Archer glacier | |
The Bolsón Cove ( Spanish Bahía Bolsón , purse bays ; in the United Kingdom Schulze Cove ) is a bay at the head of the Flanders Bay on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately east of the Étienne Fjord .
The first mapping of the bay goes back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Her presumably descriptive name, however, can only be found on an Argentine map from 1954. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated this designation into English in 1965. In contrast, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1960 after the German polymath Johann Heinrich Schulze (1687–1744), who in 1725 discovered the sensitivity of silver salts to light.
Web links
- Bolsón Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bolsón Cove on geographic.org (English)