Fossil Bight
| Fossil Bight | ||
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| Waters | Admiralty Sound | |
| Land mass | Seymour Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 51 ′ 58 ″ W | |
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The Fossil Bight (in Argentina Bahía Fósiles ) is a shallow bay on the southwest coast of Seymour Island off the north east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 1.5 km north-northeast of Cape Lama .
Argentine scientists and those of the United States Antarctic Research Program jointly named the bay in 1982 after the fossils found here .
Web links
- Fossil Bight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fossil Bight on geographic.org (English)