Hewitt Bay
| Hewitt Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bismarck Street | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 49 ′ 3 ″ S , 63 ° 46 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| length | 1.5 km | |
The Hewitt Bay is a rectangular, 1.5 km long bay of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . Your entrance is limited by the Biscoe Point and Access Point headlands .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the bay in 2007 after Roger P. Hewitt of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla , California , who led investigations into the aquatic ecosystem between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula from 1989 to 2005 and the Commission from 2000 to 2005 belonged to the conservation of the living marine resources of the Antarctic .
Web links
- Hewitt Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hewitt Bay on geographic.org (English)