Perrier Bay
| Perrier Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 23 '43 " S , 63 ° 43' 17" W | |
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| width | 10 km | |
| Islands | Masteyra Island , Trebishte Island , Vromos Island | |
The Perrier Bay ( French Baie Perrier ) is a 10 km wide bay on the northwest coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between Giard Point and Quinton Point .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them for the first time. Charcot named it after the French naturalist Edmond Perrier (1844–1921).
Web links
- Perrier Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Perrier Bay on geographic.org (English)