Jessie Bay
| Jessie Bay | ||
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 Map of Laurie Island with Jessie Bay (center left) |
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| Waters | Scotia Lake | |
| Land mass | Laurie Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 '58 " S , 44 ° 45' 58" W | |
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| width | 6 km | |
| Islands | Expedition rock | |
The Jessie Bay is a 6-km wide bay on the north coast of Laurie Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands between the Mackenzie Peninsula in the west and the Pirie Peninsula in the east. Your entrance is between Cape Robertson to the west and Cape Mabel in the east.
It was probably first sighted in 1821 by the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824) with the Sloop Dove and his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer with the Sloop James Monroe . The British navigator and seal hunter James Weddell carried out a rough mapping in 1822 . Participants in the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) carried out a survey of the bay in 1903. Expedition leader William Speirs Bruce named it after his wife Jessie Mackenzie Bruce (1870–1942).
Web links
- Jessie Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jessie Bay on geographic.org (English)