Huon Bay
| Huon Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 22 ′ S , 58 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| width | 13 km | |
The Huon Bay is about 13 km wide bay in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Cape Ducorps and Cape Legoupil on the north side of the Trinity Peninsula .
Participants in the French Antarctic expedition (1837–1840) led by Jules Dumont d'Urville had named a cape erroneously located in this area after Felix Huon de Kermadec (1813–1891), a participant in the research trip. Surveying work by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946 revealed that the cape does not exist, which is why the name was transferred to the bay.
Web links
- Huon Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Huon Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Huon Bay on a topographic map of the Trinity Peninsula, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy