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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Bourgeois Fjord (RUS) | 67° 50' 00.0" S | 67° 25' 00.0" W | Fjord |
| Name ID: 117192 Place ID: 1665 | |||
| Bourgeois Fjord (GBR) | 67° 39' 00.0" S | 67° 02' 00.0" W | Fjord |
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Name ID: 107889
Place ID: 1665
dividing Loubet Coast from Fallières Coast, was charted by FAE, 1908-10, and named Fiord Bourgeois after Col. Joseph E. Bourgeois, then Director of the Geographic Service of the French Army and a member of the Commission des Travaux Scientifiques of the expedition (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). Bourgeois Fd. (BA chart 3175, 9. x. 1914). The fjord was resurveyed by BGLE in July-August 1936. Bourgeois Fjord (Rymill, 1938a, map facing p.432; BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951; DCS 601 sheet 67 66, 1954; APC, 1955, p.6). Bourgeois Fiord (USBGN, 1947, p.139). Fiordo Bourgeois (Chile. DNH chart LIII, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.212; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.52). The fjord was further surveyed by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in 1948-49. Bourgeoise [sic] Fiord (USHO, 1956, p.36). Burzhua-F'ord (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Seno Bourgeois (Chile. DNH, 1962, p.173). |
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| Bourgeois Fjord (USA) | 67° 40' 00.0" S | 67° 05' 00.0" W | Fjord |
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Name ID: 122781
Place ID: 1665
Inlet, 30 mi long in a NE-SW direction and 3 to 5 mi wide, lying between the E sides of Pourquoi Pas and Blaiklock Islands and the W coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the FrAE, 1908-10, under Charcot, and named by him for Col. Joseph E. Bourgeois, Dir. of the Geographic Service of the French Army. The outline of this inlet was more accurately delineated in 1936 by the BGLE under Rymill. |
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| Bourgeois, fiordo (ARG) | 67° 39' 00.0" S | 67° 02' 00.0" W | Fjord |
| Name ID: 100322 Place ID: 1665 | |||
| Bourgeois, Seno (CHL) | 67° 35' 00.0" S | 66° 50' 00.0" W | Fjord |
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Name ID: 105218
Place ID: 1665
Descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Francesa de 1908-1910, al mando de Charcot, quien lo llamó Fjord Bourgeois por el apellido del coronel Joseph E. Bourgeois, director del Servicio Geográfico del Ejército de Francia. El contorno de este seno fue delineado más exactamente en 1936 por la BGLE, al mando de Rymill, y por el FIDS en 1948-1950. Desde 1962 se emplea seno en vez de fiordo. Seno que se abre entre la isla Pourquoi-Pas y la isla Herradura, en el lado NE de la bahía Margarita. Sus aguas se extienden hacia el NE por 30 millas, hasta alcanzar el pie de las montañas que forman la meseta continental. |
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| Mount Denham (AUS) | 66° 55' 00.1" S | 52° 19' 00.1" E | Mountain |
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Name ID: 1665
Place ID: 3521
A mountain about 4 km north-east of Mount Ryder, Enderby Land. Plotted from air photographs taken by ANARE in 1957. Named after W M Denham, weather observer at Mawson in 1961. |
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