Neptunes Window
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| Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |||
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| Coordinates | 62 ° 59 ′ 10 ″ S , 60 ° 32 ′ 42 ″ W | ||
Neptunes Window (English for Neptune's window ) is a gap between two rock pillars in the southeast of Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located immediately east of Whalers Bay .
Lieutenant Commander David Neil Penfold (1913-1991) of the Royal Navy gave the saddle its descriptive name in the course of a survey of Deception Island between 1948 and 1949, as the weather and ice conditions in the Neptunes Bellows strait were easy to assess from here .
Web links
- Neptunes Window in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Neptunes Window on geographic.org (English)