Fliess Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Fliess 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:
SW of Fitzroy Point, NE Joinville Island, was named Caleta Almirante Fliess by AAE after Almte Felipe Fliess (1878-1952), of the Argentine Navy, who as a lieutenant had commanded the naval detachment that formed part of the crew of the corvette Uruguay in 1903, when members of SwAE were rescued from Snow Hill Island (Argentina. MM chart 124, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.160). Bahía Almirante Fliess (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.178). The bay was surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1958-61. Fliess Bay (APC, 1964, p.3; BAS 250 sheet SP 21-22/14 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1973).
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