Couperin Bay
| Couperin Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bellingshausen lake | |
| Land mass | Alexander I Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 72 ° 4 '54 " S , 74 ° 24' 25" W | |
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The Couperin Bay is a bay on the south coast of the Beethoven Peninsula on the West Antarctic Alexander Island . It is located between Perce Point and Berlioz Point .
The British geographer Derek Searle from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped the bay in 1960 using aerial photographs taken during the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947–1948). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1977 after the French composer François Couperin (1688-1733).
Web links
- Couperin Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Couperin Bay on geographic.org (English)