Petter Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Petter Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Spence Harbour and Divide Peaks, SE Coronation Island, was roughly charted by Powell and Palmer in December 1821; further charted by Sørlle, 1912-13, and named after him P. Sørlle's Bugt, probably by Borge (Sørlle, chart, 1912) or Petters Bay (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913; BA 1930, p.52). Petter Sørlle (1884-1933) was a Norwegian whaling captain who first visited the South Orkney Islands, 1911-12, and who in 1922 took out a patent for his whale slipway, first used in Lancing in 1925. The bay was recharted by DI in 1933. Caleta Petters (Argentina. IGM map 104, 1933). Petter Bay (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.17; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Bahía Petter (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.273; Pierrou, 1970, p.588). The bay was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. Baia Peffer [sic] (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 10). [Sørlle Buttress, South Georgia, is also named after Kapt. P. Sørlle (Hattersley-Smith, 1980b, p.82).]
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