Porlier Bay
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 View from Catalunyan Saddle onto Porlier Bay (back right), foreground: Burdick Ridge |
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 29 ′ 10 ″ S , 60 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| depth | 1.6 km | |
The Porlier Bay (English; Bulgarian залив Порлиер saliw Porlier ) is a 3 km wide and 1.6 m long bay on the north coast of the John Paul II Peninsula in the north of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Cape Shirreff and Black Point .
British scientists mapped them in 1968, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991 and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2010 after Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta (1771-1819), commander of the Spanish squadron whose flagship is the San Telmo in September 1819 with its 644-strong crew sank off Livingston Island.
Web links
- Porlier Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)