Buls Bay
| Buls Bay | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Land mass | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 23 '33 " S , 62 ° 17' 44" W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| Islands | Maipo Island | |
| Tributaries | Hippocrates glacier | |
The Buls Bay ( French Baie Buls ) is a 3 km wide bay on the east coast of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of Cape d'Ursel .
It was discovered during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery , who named it after Karel Buls (1837–1914), then Mayor of Brussels and supporter of the research trip .
Web links
- Buls Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buls Bay on geographic.org (English)