Piccard Cove
| Piccard Cove | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay ( Gerlache Street ) | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Montgolfier Glacier , Rozier Glacier , Woodbury Glacier | |
The Piccard Cove is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It forms the southernmost part of Wilhelmina Bay .
It was mapped during the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after the Swiss physicist, stratospheric and deep-sea researcher Auguste Piccard (1884–1962), who set a new altitude record in a hydrogen-filled balloon on May 27, 1931 with 15,785 m .
Web links
- Piccard Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Piccard Cove on geographic.org (English)