Charcot Bay
| Charcot Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 48 ′ S , 59 ° 32 ′ W | |
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| width | 16 km | |
| Tributaries | Andrew Glacier , Whitecloud Glacier | |
The Charcot Bay is a bay on the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It stretches for 16 km between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman . The Lindblad Cove and Ognen Cove are secondary bays.
It was discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . He named it after the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1876–1936).
Web links
- Charcot Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Charcot Bay on geographic.org (English)