Port circumcision
| Port circumcision | ||
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| Waters | Penola Strait | |
| Land mass | Petermann Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 10 ′ 33 ″ S , 64 ° 8 ′ 2 ″ W | |
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The Port Circumcision ( English , French port circoncision , Port of circumcision ' ) is a bay on the southeast coast of the Wilhelm Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula belonging Petermann Island .
Participants of the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) discovered them on January 1, 1909. Expedition leader Jean-Baptiste Charcot named them after the circumcision of Jesus Christ, which was celebrated on New Year's Day . The bay later served the expedition as a wintering place for their ship Pourquoi Pas? . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1953.
Web links
- Port Circumcision in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Port Circumcision on geographic.org (English)