Name details

Patagonia Bay

Patagonia Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Patagonia Bay  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 110515

Feature type: Bay

Origin

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:

Narrative

between Gourdon Peninsula and Thompson Peninsula, N Anvers Island, was roughly charted at its mouth by FAE, 1903-05; further charted by AAE, 1947, and named Bahía Patagonia after the AAE ship Patagonia (Argentina. MM chart 106, 1949; Pierrou, 1970, p.579); photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Bahía Sin Nombre [=nameless bay], so called by CAE, 1961-62 (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.162; IHA, 1974, p.261). Bahía González Videla, after G. González Videla (Greenwich Island, q.v.) (Alarcón and others, 1976, folding map). Patagonia Bay (APC, 1986, p.4).

Named For

Location

Latitude:
64° 27' 00.0" S
-64.45000°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
63° 12' 00.0" W
-63.20000°
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Altitude:
Not recorded
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
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Source Name:
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Source Identifier:
Source Scale:
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Source Institution:
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Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
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Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
3-Apr-1984

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