Darbel Bay
| Darbel Bay | ||
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| Waters | Crystal sound | |
| Land mass | Graham land | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 29 ′ S , 65 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| width | approx. 40 km | |
| Islands | Darbel Islands , Archipiélago de los Ríos , Kidd Islands , McConnel Islands , Workman Rocks | |
| Tributaries | Drummond Glacier , Erskine Glacier , Hopkins Glacier , Keith Glacier , McCance Glacier , Škorpil Glacier , Solun Glacier , Widdowson Glacier | |
The Darbel Bay is a 40 km wide bay at the Loubet coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Cape Bellue and Cape Rey . The Erskine and Hopkins glaciers flow into the bay . The Darbel Islands extend south-west of Cape Bellue over 8 km along the entrance to Darbel Bay .
It was discovered during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of the French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot , who named it after the French Vice-Admiral Laurent Marin-Darbel (1849-1928) as Baie Marin Darbel . The area was mapped in 1931 during the research trip of the RRS Discovery II (1929-1931) as part of the Discovery Investigations and the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Darbel Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Darbel Bay on geographic.org (English)