Name details

Corsair Bight

Corsair Bight (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Corsair Bight  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 140244

Feature type: Bight

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

20 km wide embayment on the North coast of King George Island, facing Drake Passage between Pottinger Point to the West and False Round Point to the East.

Named For

Sir Francis Drake 1540-1596 (Drake Glacier) C16 explorer, naval captain and privateer or corsair.

Location

Latitude:
61° 55' 00.0" S
-61.91667°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
58° 10' 00.0" W
-58.16667°
Unknown precision
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
USGS Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica and SCAR Antarctic Digital Database in UK APC GIS; BAS aerial photography 2013, 30 m resolution, photography 12 cm resolution
Source Identifier:
https://apc.antarctica.ac.uk/
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
British Antarctic Survey
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
8-Nov-2018

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