Scotia Bay
| Scotia Bay | ||
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 Map of Laurie Island with Scotia Bay to the south |
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Laurie Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 44 '55 " S , 44 ° 43' 1" W | |
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| width | 4 km | |
The Scotia Bay is a bay just east of Mossman Peninsula on the south coast of Laurie Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .
It was discovered and roughly mapped in 1821 by the British sealer captain George Powell (1794-1824) on the Dove and the American navigator Nathaniel Palmer on the Hero . A detailed cartographic survey was made in 1903 participants of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) under the direction of William Speirs Bruce . Bruce named the bay after his ship Scotia .
Web links
- Scotia Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Scotia Bay on geographic.org (English)