D'Abnour Bay
| D'Abnour Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 16 ′ 16 ″ S , 63 ° 14 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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The D'Abnour Bay ( French Baie Richard D'Abnour ) is a small bay in the north of the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 5 km east-southeast of Cape Greenland .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them for the first time. Charcot named it after Rear Admiral Claude Marcel Henri Etienne Richard d'Abnour (1845-1907) of the French Navy , who had supported the research trip .
Web links
- D'Abnour Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- D'Abnour Bay on geographic.org (English)