Salpêtrière Bay
| Salpêtrière Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Booth Island , Wilhelm Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 4 ′ 24 ″ S , 64 ° 1 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The Salpêtrière Bay ( French Baie de la Salpêtrière ) is a 1.5 km wide bay on the west coast of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located between the Hervéou Point and the Poste Point .
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 the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière , in which his father Jean-Martin Charcot worked.
Web links
- Salpêtrière Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Salpêtrière Bay on geographic.org (English)