South Bay (Doumer Island)
| South Bay | ||
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| Waters | Neumayer Canal | |
| Land mass | Doumer Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 52 '11 " S , 63 ° 34' 45" W | |
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| width | 700 m | |
The South Bay ( English for south bay ; in Argentina Bahía del Faro , Spanish for lighthouse bay ) is a 700 m wide bay on the southwest coast of Doumer Island in the Palmer Archipelago west of the Antarctic Peninsula . Your entrance is bounded to the northwest by Cape Kemp and southeast by Py Point . The north and east banks of the bay are characterized by ice cliffs, while the south bank has a rocky beach.
Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill mapped the bay in February 1935 and named it after its geographical location. Scientists on an Argentine expedition (1948–1949) named it after the beacon built in 1947 at Py Point . In 1962, Chilean scientists set up the Yelcho station on its north bank . A 96 hectare area of the bay is declared as a specially protected area No. 146 ( Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 146 ) in order to keep a long-term marine ecology research program in Chile free from disturbances.
Web links
- South Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ South Bay, Doumer Island, Palmer Archipelago (PDF; 73 kB), Management Plan, accessed on June 26, 2016 (English)