Bothy Bay
| Bothy Bay | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street , Southern Ocean | |
| Land mass | Fildes Peninsula , King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 10 ′ 19 ″ S , 58 ° 58 ′ 34 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 1 km | |
| depth | approx. 1 km | |
| Tributaries | Basalt Bach , snow Bach , Seebärenbach | |
The Bothy Bay (English for Hut Bay is) a small bay near the west end of King George Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located on the northwest side of the Fildes Peninsula . The entrance to the bay is 0.7 miles southeast of Square End Island . Its coastline is taken up by a wide beach with low cliffs on the northeast and southwest sides.
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the bay in 1977 after a primitive stone hut that seal hunters apparently built in the bay in the 19th century.
On a Brazilian map from 1984 the bay is labeled as "[Baía / Enseada] Dos Lobos Marinhos", which corresponds to the inscription " Seebären bucht" on a German map published in 1985. After this, three brooks flow into the bay from the east (from north to south): the short basalt brook as well as the snow brook and the sea bear brook , which together drain the snow lake. In the north the mussel bay and in the south the Skua bay border on the " Seebärenbucht ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bothy Bay in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System , accessed October 2, 2017
- ↑ Bothy Bay (GBR) in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica , accessed October 2, 2017
- ^ Dietrich Barsch, Wolf-Dieter Blümel, Wolfgang-Albert Flügel, Roland Mäusbacher, Gerhard Stäblein and Wolfgang Zick: Investigations on the periglacial on the König-Georg-Insel, South Shetland Islands / Antarctica. German physiogeographic research in the Antarctic. Report on the 1983/84 campaign. Polar Research Reports No. 24, November 1985, map on p. 14. Retrieved July 24, 2018
Web links
- Bothy Bay on geographic.org (English)