Whalers Bay
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 View over Whalers Bay |
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| Waters | Port Foster , Neptunes Bellows | |
| Land mass | Deception Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 33 ′ 42 ″ W | |
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 Map of Deception Island with Whalers Bay (bottom right) |
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The Whalers Bay (English for Whaler's Bay , French Anse des Baleiniers ) is a bay of Deception Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It is located between Fildes Point and Penfold Point on the east side of Port Foster .
The French polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot named them during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910). At that time the bay was a popular anchorage for whaling ships.
Web links
- Whalers Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Whalers Bay on geographic.org (English)