Kayak Bay
| Kayak Bay | ||
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| Waters | Pampas passage | |
| Land mass | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 17 '59 " S , 62 ° 12' 23" W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Mackenzie Glacier | |
The Kayak Bay (English for kayaking bay is) a bay on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the western coast of the Antarctic Graham Lands . It is 2.5 km wide and borders the Pampa Passage . The Mackenzie Glacier flow into this bay.
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery roughly mapped them in 1898. Scientists from an Argentine expedition carried out from 1947 to 1948 carried out a more detailed mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1986 in memory of the circumnavigation of the Brabant Island by sea kayak in February 1985 by participants in a campaign of the British Joint Services Expedition , which also sailed this bay.
Web links
- Kayak Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Kayak Bay on geographic.org (English)