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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Bellingshausen Sea (GBR) 71° 00' 00.0" S 85° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 107742 Place ID: 1138

between Alexander Island and Thurston Island, S of Peter I Øy, was discovered by RAE in January 1821. FAE, 1908-10, applied the name Mer de Bellingshausen to the sea area centred in 67°S, between 85°W and 100°W, after Adm. Thaddeus Thaddevich Bellingshausen (1779-1852), of the Imperial Russian Navy, Commander of RAE (Rouch, 1911, p.1; Charcot, 1912, Pl. 8), and the name Mer de la Belgica to the sea area centred in 70°30'S, between 85°W and 100°W, after Belgica, expedition ship of BeAE (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 8). Bellingshausen Sea, loosely for the sea area N, NW and W of Alexander Island, or between SW Graham Land and 98°W, with S limit the Antarctic mainland (Mill, 1912, map following p.420; BA chart 3175, 1.iii.1940; APC, 1955, p.5; DCS 960 Falkland Islands and Dependencies sheet, 1955). Mar de Bellingshausen (Hoxmark, 1924; Pierrou, 1970, p.198; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.94). Belgica Sea (Bellingshausen Sea) (AGS map, [1929c]). von Bellingshausens Hav (Aagaard, 1930, end map). Bellingshausen See (Germany. OK chart 1064, 1938). Mar Bellingshausen (Argentina. MM chart 65, 1940). Bellinghausen [sic]-See (Breitfuss, 1943, Tafel 38). Bellingshausen Hav (Hansen, chart [no number], 1947). Bellingshausenin Meri (Andersson, 1948, end map). More Bellinsgauzena (Bender, 1948, map p.47). Mar de O'Higgins, after Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (Antarctic Peninsula, q.v.) (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.197 and end map). Mar de Billingshausen [sic] (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.55). Mer Belgica, extending N to c. 64 S (Kosack, 1954, Tafel 46). More Bel'zhika (Guretskiy, 1954, p.458). In 1954 the name Bellingshausen Sea was restricted to the sea area between Alexander Island and Thurston Island, S of Peter I Øy (BA chart 3175, 12.xi.1954; APC, 1977, p.5). Belgica Meer (Kosack, 1955a, p.223). Bellingshaus-See (Capurro, 1955, p.139). Mar de Bellinghaussen [sic] (Capurro, 1955, p.1). Mer Bellingshausen (France. SHM chart 5879, 1956). Bellingshausenhavet (Frödin, 1956, Front.). Bellinghausen [sic] Sea (Anderson, 1957, p.145). Bellinsghaussen [sic] (Argentina. MM, 1957a, p.152). Bellingshausen Zee (Knapp, 1958, p.569). Mare Belgica (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 12-13). Mare di Bellingshausen (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 6, 9). More Bellingshausenovo (Bártl, 1958, map facing p.144). Morzu Bellingshausena (Fuchs and Hillary, 1959f, p.41). Mar de Belligshausen [sic] (del Valle and others, 1974, Fig. 3, p.22). Bellingshajen Sea [sic] (USDMAAC chart JNC-116N, 1975). Morze Bellingshausena (Birkenmajer, 1979b, map Fig. 1, p.2). [Bellingshausen Island, South Sandwich Islands, and Bellingshausen Point, South Georgia, are also named after Adm. T. T. Bellingshausen (Hattersley-Smith, 1980b, p.21).]

Bellingshausen Sea (USA) 71° 00' 00.0" S 85° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 122384 Place ID: 1138

Marginal sea off the coast of Antarctica between Alexander Island and Thurston Island. Named for Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen.

Bellingshausen, mar de (ARG) 71° 00' 00.0" S 85° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 100244 Place ID: 1138

Bellingshausen, Mer (RUS) 70° 00' 00.0" S 85° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 117036 Place ID: 1138

Bellingshausenhavet (NOR) 71° 30' 00.0" S 82° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 135745 Place ID: 1138

Marginal sea off the coast of Antarctica between Alexander Island and Thurston Island. After Commander Thaddeus von Bellingshausen, leader of the first Russian Antarctic expedition 1819-21, who discovered Peter I Øy in 1921. See also Von Bellingshausenkysten.

De Bellingshausen, Mar (CHL) 71° 00' 00.0" S 85° 00' 00.0" W Sea
Name ID: 105413 Place ID: 1138

El nombre recuerda al capitán de navío (después almirante) Thaddeus Bellingshausen de la Armada Rusa, quien comandó la Expedición Rusa de 1819-1821, integrada por los buques "Vostok" y "Mirny". Recibe este nombre la extensión de aguas ubicadas al SW de la península Tierra de O'Higgins y que baña las costas de la Antártica desde la isla Alejandro I, hacia el W, hasta la península Thurston.

Lewis Island (AUS) 66° 06' 15.0" S 134° 23' 04.0" E Island
Name ID: 1138 Place ID: 8394

A small rocky island on the eastern side of Davis Bay, about 30 m from the continental ice cliffs of Wilkes Coast. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47). The first landing was made on the island by an ANARE party on 7 January 1956. Named by USACAN after T. Lewis, gunner on the sloop of war Peacock, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Wilkes.

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