Deloncle Bay
| Deloncle Bay | ||
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| Waters | Lemaire Channel | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 5 '12 " S , 63 ° 54' 51" W | |
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| Tributaries | Hotine glacier | |
The Deloncle Bay ( French Baie Deloncle ) is a 2.5 km long bay on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Loubat Point and Glandaz Point and opens up to the Lemaire Channel across from Booth Island .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered them. Participants of the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot carried out a new mapping. Charcot named the bay after the French diplomat François Deloncle (1856-1922), secretary of the Société de Géographie , who supported the funding of Charcot's research trip.
Web links
- Deloncle Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Deloncle Bay on geographic.org (English)