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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Darbel Bay (RUS) 66° 30' 00.0" S 66° 00' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 117612 Place ID: 3323

Darbel Bay (GBR) 66° 30' 00.0" S 65° 58' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 108425 Place ID: 3323

between Cape Bellue and Cape Rey, Loubet Coast, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, and included with Matha Strait (q.v.) and Crystal Sound (q.v.) under the name Baie Matha (Charcot, 1910, map facing p.370); later named Baie Marin Darbel after Capt. Laurent-Victor Marin-Darbel (b.1849), of the French Navy (Charcot, 1912, Pl. 1). Marin Darbel Bay (BA chart 3175, 9.x.1914; 1948, p.208). Kerlu Bay, probably referring to this bay (ICRD, 1920, p.42). Marin Darbel B. (HA chart, 1927). Following air reconnaissance on 20 December 1928, Wilkins erroneously showed the bay as the W part of a channel cutting through Graham Land and called it Marin Darbel Fjord (Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374). Martin [sic] Darbel-Fjorden (Aagaard, 1930, end map). The feature was further charted as a bay by DI in 1931. Marin-Darbel Fiord (NGS map, [1932]). Bahía de Marin Darbel, following sketch survey by BGLE (Rymill and others, 1943, map facing p.272). Bahía Marin Darbel (Chile. DNH chart LII, 1947; IHA, 1974, p.194). Martin [sic] Darbel Bay (BA, 1952, p.5). Darbel Bay (BA chart 3570, 27.vi.1952; APC, 1955, p.8; DCS 601 sheet 66 64, 1955; BA chart 3570, 29.ix.1961). Bahía Darbel (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.286; Pierrou, 1970, p.293). The bay was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1957. Marin Darbel Baai (Knapp, 1958, p.579). Darvel [sic] Bay (Wynne-Edwards, 1960, p.314). Zaliv Darbel' (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Bahía Darbel Marin, as rejected form (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.194).

Darbel Bay (USA) 66° 30' 00.0" S 65° 55' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 124094 Place ID: 3323

Bay 25 mi wide, indenting the W coast of Graham Land between Capes Bellue and Rey. Discovered and roughly charted by the FrAE under Charcot, 1908-10, who gave it the name "Baie Marin Darbel." The bay was further charted in 1931 by DI personnel on the Discovery II, and by the BGLE, 1934-37, under Rymill.

Darbel, bahía (ARG) 66° 30' 00.0" S 66° 00' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 100620 Place ID: 3323

Marín Darbel, Bahía (CHL) 66° 35' 00.0" S 65° 55' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 105904 Place ID: 3323

Esta bahía fue descubierta por la Expedición Antártica Francesa entre los años 1908-1910 al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien levantó un croquis de ella y le dio el nombre. Bahía amplia situada entre los cabos Belluey Rey, costa W de la península Tierra de O'Higgins.

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