Fournier Bay
| Fournier Bay | ||
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 32 ′ S , 63 ° 9 ′ W | |
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| width | 5 km | |
| depth | 13 km | |
| Islands | Guépratte Island | |
| Tributaries | Kleptusa Glacier , Kraus Glacier , Rhesos Glacier , Thamyris Glacier | |
The Fournier Bay ( French Baie de l'Amiral Fournier and Baie Fournier ) is a bay on the northeast coast of the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago . It is located immediately west of the Briggs Peninsula .
The German polar explorer Eduard Dallmann probably discovered them during his Antarctic expedition, which lasted from 1873 to 1874. It was mapped during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . He named the bay after the French admiral François Ernest Fournier (1842–1934).
Web links
- Fournier Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fournier Bay on geographic.org (English)