Bourgeois Fjord
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 Seals on an ice floe in the Bourgeois Fjord |
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 38 ′ S , 67 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| width | Max. 8 kilometers | |
| length | approx. 48 km | |
| Islands | Gnome Island , Ridge Island | |
| Tributaries | Bader Glacier , Bucher Glacier , Kashin Glacier , Lliboutry Glacier , Perutz Glacier | |
 View from Horseshoe Island across the Bourgeois Fjord to Pourquoi-Pas Island |
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The Bourgeois Fjord is a fjord around 48 km long and between 4.5 and 8 km wide, the one in the northeastern part of Marguerite Bay in a northeast-southwest orientation between the east coasts of Pourquoi-Pas and Blaiklock Islands and the west coast of the Antarctic graham land . It delimits the Loubet coast in the north from the Fallières coast in the south.
He was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who named him after Joseph Émile Robert Bourgeois (1857-1945), head of the cartographic service of the French armed forces . The exact extent of the fjord was measured by the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Bourgeois Fjord in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bourgeois Fjord on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the region
