Port Charcot
| Port Charcot | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 3 '54 " S , 63 ° 59' 10" W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
| Islands | Sögen Island | |
The Port Charcot is a 2.5 km wide bay on the north coast of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) were the first to map the bay. The expedition leader and polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot had the winter camp built here for the research trip in 1904 and named the bay after his father, the medic Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893).
Web links
- Port Charcot in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Port Charcot on geographic.org (English)