Roland Bay
| Roland Bay | ||
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| Waters | Rallier Canal | |
| Land mass | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Roland Bay ( French Baie Roland ) is a small bay on the west coast of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the Graham Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located at the western end of the peninsula that separates Port Charcot from Salpêtrière Bay . The Hervéou Point forms its south bank.
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 named it after F. Roland, a seaman on board the research vessel Français .
Web links
- Roland Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Roland Bay on geographic.org (English)