Gonzalez Harbor
| Gonzalez Harbor | ||
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| Waters | Telephone Bay | |
| Land mass | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 55 ′ 38 ″ S , 60 ° 41 ′ 40 ″ W | |
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The Gonzales Harbor is a small side bay of telephone Bay on the northwest side of Port Foster at Deception Iceland in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It consists of a series of interconnected volcanic explosion craters filled with seawater .
Polish scientists named it in 1999 after the Chilean geologist Óscar González-Ferrán, who was involved in exploring the West Antarctic Marie Byrd Land from 1967 to 1968 as part of the United States Antarctic Program and who published numerous scientific publications on the volcanic development of Deception Island would have.
Web links
- Gonzalez Harbor in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)