Lanusse Bay
| Lanusse Bay Bahía Gauche |
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Land mass | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 13 ′ 59 ″ S , 62 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Djerassi Glacier , Goritschane Glacier , Palilula Glacier | |
The Lanusse Bay (in Argentina Bahía Lanusse , in Chile Bahía Gauche ) is a bay on the west coast of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Driencourt Point in the north and Minot Point in the south.
Participants in an Argentine Antarctic expedition carried out from 1978 to 1979 named them after Alejandro Lanusse († 1943) of the Argentine Navy , the first Argentine pilot who had flown an airplane to Antarctica . The namesake of the Chilean name is Luis Gauche Délano (1915-1984), captain of the ship Leucotón in the 6th Chilean Antarctic Expedition (1951-1952).
Web links
- Lanusse Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lanusse Bay on geographic.org (English)