Marguerite Bay

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Marguerite Bay
Marguerite Bay,
Baie Marguerite
View from Adelaide Island over Marguerite Bay. In the foreground the Rothera station.

View from Adelaide Island over Marguerite Bay. In the foreground the Rothera station.

Waters Bellingshausen lake
Land mass Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Geographical location 68 ° 30 ′  S , 68 ° 30 ′  W Coordinates: 68 ° 30 ′  S , 68 ° 30 ′  W
Marguerite Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)
Marguerite Bay
width approx. 240 km
depth approx. 125 km
Islands Avian Island , Baffle Rock , Bar Island , Bear Island , Blaiklock Island , Buffer Island , Bugge Islands , Burton Rocks , Chatos Islands , Compass Island , Debenham Islands , Dion Islands , Edisto Rocks , Endurance Reef , Faure Islands , Fitton Rock , Flyspot Rocks , Fuller Rock , Ginger Islands , Glover Rocks , Gould Islands , Gremlin Island , Guébriant Islands , Guyer Rock , Henkes Islands , Hibbert Rock , Jennings Reef , Jenny Island , Joubert Rock , Kirkwood- Islands , Knuckle Reef , Lagotellerie Island , Launch Rock , League Rock , Line Islands , Mica Islands , Mikkelsen Islands , Millerand Island , Mission Rock , Mushroom Island , Napier Island , Neny Island , Northstar Island , Outlaw Rock , Patience Rocks , Islotes Perez , Pod Rocks , Pourquoi-Pas Island, Puffball Islands , Randall Rocks , Reference Islands , Regent Reef , Rocca Islands , Runaway Island , Skeen Rocks , Solitario Island , Stipple Rocks , Stonington Island , Surf Rock , Terminal Island , Terra Firma Islands , Toadstool Rocks , Rocas Triunvirato
Tributaries Bertrand Piedmont Glacier , Carlson Glacier , Hariot Glacier , McMorrin Glacier , Northeast Glacier , Roberts Piedmont Glacier
Map of the Antarctic Peninsula with Marguerite Bay, including Mikkelsen Bay and Wordie Bay

Map of the Antarctic Peninsula with Marguerite Bay, including Mikkelsen Bay and Wordie Bay

The Marguerite Bay ( French Baie Marguerite ) is a 200 km long bay on the southwest coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is bordered in the north by Adelaide Island and in the south by Alexander I Island ; to the east is the Antarctic mainland (the Fallières coast and then to the north - in the area of ​​the Arrowsmith Peninsula - the Loubet coast of Graham Land ). The south-eastern section of the bay was occupied by the Wordie Ice Shelf , which has now melted, until the end of the 1990s . The Rothera Station on Adelaide Island is located on the Marguerite Bay.

The bay was discovered as part of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot and named after his second wife Marguerite Cléry (1874–1960).

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