Girard Bay
| Girard Bay | ||
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| Waters | Penola Strait | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 7 ′ 58 ″ S , 63 ° 58 ′ 22 ″ W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| depth | 1.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Hotine glacier , Leay glacier | |
The Girard Bay ( French Baie Girard ) is a bay on the Graham Coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Cape Cloos and Mount Scott .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899), led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, discovered the bay. The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot made the naming during the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903-1905). It is named after the French geographer Jules Marie Simon Girard (1839–1921), a member of the Société de Géographie , which had supported Charcot's expedition.
Web links
- Girard Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Girard Bay on geographic.org (English)