Malle Bay
| Malle Bay Bahía Malle, Bahía Bandera |
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| Waters | Laubeuf Fjord | |
| Land mass | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 67 ° 57 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Malle Bay ( English ; Spanish Bahía Malle ; in Argentina Bahía Bandera , Spanish for flag bay ) is a small bay on the east coast of the Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located 60 km south of Cape Mascart and west of the southwest coast of Day Island .
Chilean scientists named it after Miguel Malle Gómez, a member of a 1974 hydrographic surveying unit of the Chilean Navy operating in this area . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 2016. The background of the Argentine naming is not deposited.
Web links
- Malle Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)