Iceberg Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Iceberg 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 Cape Hansen and Olivine Point, S Coronation Island, was roughly charted by Weddell in January 1823 and named descriptively Ice Berg Bay (Weddell, 1825a, map facing p.25). Eisberg Bay (Weddell, 1827, second end map). Iceberg Bay (Powell, chart, 1831; BA chart 1238, 7.ix.1839; [referring to unnamed bay on E side of Olivine Point] Sørlle and Borge chart, 1913; [correctly shown] BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.12). Eisberg Bai (Friederichsen, 1895, Tafel 7 facing p.304). Isfjell Bukt, referring to bay on E side of Olivine Point (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). The bay was recharted by DI in 1933. Bahía Témpano [translation of English name] (Argentina. MM chart 117, 1952; Pierrou, 1970, p.680). The bay was further surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. The bay is the site of a BAS refuge hut established in 1962.
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