Malmgren Bay
| Malmgren Bay Bahía Sobenes |
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Renaud Island , Biscoe Islands | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 45 '5 " S , 66 ° 5' 39" W | |
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The Malmgren Bay ( in Chile Bahía Sobenes called) is a bay on the west side of Renaud Island in the archipelago of the Biscoe Islands west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located immediately north of Speerschneider Point .
It was first recorded on an Argentine map from 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the Swedish meteorologist and polar explorer Finn Adolf Erik Johan Malmgren (1895–1928), who wrote an important study report on the properties of sea ice in 1927 published. The Chilean name is named after the cargo ship Sobenes .
Web links
- Malmgren Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Malmgren Bay on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sobenes, Bahía. Information from the Australian Antarctic Data Center (accessed November 25, 2016).