Patagonia Bay
| Patagonia Bay | ||
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| Waters | Dallmann Bay | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 27 '27 " S , 63 ° 11' 12" W | |
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| Tributaries | Lipen Glacier | |
The Patagonia Bay ( Spanish Bahía Patagonia ) is a bay on the northeast coast of Anvers Island in the West Antarctic Palmer Archipelago . It lies between the Gourdon and Thompson Peninsula .
Participants in an Argentine Antarctic expedition named it in 1947 after the Argentine factory ship Patagonia , one of the ships on this research trip . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1984. In Chile , however, it is now known as Bahía Wunderlich . The namesake here is frigate captain Pablo Wunderlich Widerit, skipper of the 20th Chilean Antarctic expedition (1965–1966).
Web links
- Patagonia Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Patagonia Bay on geographic.org (English)