Wylie Bay
| Wylie Bay | ||
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Anvers Island ( Palmer Archipelago , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 44 '10 " S , 64 ° 7' 54" W | |
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| width | 6 km | |
| Islands | Casey Islands , Dream Island , Fraser Island , Halfway Island , Peoples Rocks , Trivelpiece Island | |
The Wylie Bay is a 6-km wide bay on the southwestern coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago . It lies between Cape Monaco and Norsel Point .
Participants in the Fourth French Antarctic Expedition (1903–1905) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot mapped them for the first time. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1959 after the British geodesist John Peter Wylie (1928-2008) from the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , who worked between 1956 and 1957 in Arthur Harbor on Anvers Island.
Web links
- Wylie Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wylie Bay on geographic.org (English)