Caleta Neyt
| Caleta Neyt | ||
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| Waters | Croker Passage | |
| Land mass | Liège Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 58 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | Max. 700 m | |
| depth | 700 m | |
The Caleta Neyt ( Spanish ) is a 700 m long and wide bay lined with ice cliffs on the north coast of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in a northeast-southwest orientation about 1.3 km southeast of Moureaux Point .
Chilean scientists named it after the name of the neighboring Neyt Point . Its namesake is the General Neyt, a supporter of the Belgica expedition (1897-1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery .
Web links
- Neyt, Caleta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)