Corsair Bight
| Corsair Bight | ||
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 61 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 10 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Islands | Bach Quartet | |
The Corsair Bight (English for Polish Zatoka Korsarza , buccaneer's bay ' ) is a bay on the north coast of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located between False Round Point and Pottinger Point on Drakestrasse .
Polish scientists named it in 1984 after the English privateer Francis Drake (≈1540–1596), who is also the namesake for Drake Street.
Web links
- Corsair Bight in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)