Gerritsz Bay
| Gerritsz Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 15 ′ 20 ″ S , 63 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 4 km | |
| depth | 2.15 km | |
The Gerritsz Bay (English; Bulgarian залив Гериц saliw Geriz ) is a 4 km wide and 2.15 km long bay on the northeast coast of the Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies east of Oberbauer Point and west of the northwestern extension of a peninsula , at the end of which is Cape Greenland .
British scientists mapped them in 1980. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after the Dutch navigator Dirck Gerritz Pomp (1544–1608), who may have sighted the South Shetland Islands in 1599 .
Web links
- Gerritsz Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)