Visca Anchorage
| Visca Anchorage | ||
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| Waters | Admiralty Bay ( Bransfield Street ) | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ S , 58 ° 24 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Noble Glacier | |
Visca Anchorage ( French Anse Visca ) is a side bay in the northwest of Martel Inlet in Admiralty Bay in the south of King George Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands .
It was mapped during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Charcot named the anchorage (English: anchorage ) to his friend, Uruguayan doctor Pedro Francisco Visca (1840-1912).
Web links
- Visca Anchorage in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Visca Anchorage on geographic.org (English)