Thomson Cove
| Thomson Cove | ||
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| Waters | Bay of Flanders | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 65 ° 6 '48 " S , 63 ° 14' 5" W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The Thomson Cove ( French Baie Thomson ) is a bay at the head of the Flanders Bay on the Danco coast of Graham Land in the north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is there north of the Etienne Fjord .
The mapping of the bay goes back to participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) by polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named it after the French politician Gaston Arnold Marie Thomson (1848-1932), France's Minister of the Navy in 1905. On September 23, 1960, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated the French name into English.
Web links
- Thomson Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Thomson Cove on geographic.org (English)