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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Erebus and Terror Gulf (RUS) 63° 45' 00.0" S 56° 15' 00.0" W Gulf
Name ID: 117902 Place ID: 4300

Erebus and Terror Gulf (GBR) 63° 55' 00.0" S 56° 40' 00.0" W Gulf
Name ID: 108699 Place ID: 4300

between Dundee Island and Seymour Island, bounded by Andersson Island, Tabarin Peninsula, Vega Island and James Ross Island to W, was roughly charted by Ross, December 1842-January 1843, and named Gulf of Erebus and Terror after his two ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, lost in the Canadian Arctic in 1848, with Sir John Franklin's expedition (Ross, chart, [1843?]). i Erebus Gulf (BA chart 1240, [post iv.1843]; Ross, 1847a, end map). Erebus and Terror Gulf (BA chart 1238, 1844; Ross, 1847a, map facing p.329; APC, 1955, p.9; BA chart 3205, 15.iii.1957; DOS 610 sheet W 64 56, 1961). Golfe Erebus and Terror (Vincendon-Dumoulin, atlas, 1847, Pl.43). Golfo Erebus y Terror (Spain. DH chart 458, 1861; Pierrou, 1970, p.342; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.116). Erebus and Terror Golf (Petermann, map, 1867). Gulf of Erebus (McMormick, 1884, p.334). Erebus and Terror Bay (Bruce, 1894, p.59). The gulf was further charted by Larsen, 1893-94. Erebus og Terror Gulf (Larsen, 1894a, p.131). Erebus-und Terror-Golf (Petersen, 1895a p.269). Golfo Erebus e Terra [sic] (Gerlache, 1902a, end map). The gulf was mapped by SwAE, 1902-04. Golfo Erebus ([Irízar], 1903, map facing p.128). Golfe Erebus et Terror (Lecointe, 1903, Carte 4). Erebus-Bucht (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 1, p.302). Golfo de Erebus (Nordenskjöld, 1904c, p.29). Erebus-och Terror Bukten (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904a, Del. 1, end map). Erebus-und Terrorbucht (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 1, p.74). Erebus-og Terrorbugten (Nordenskjöld, 1904b, p.173). Erebus-och Terror-Golfen (Andersson, 1904b, p.76). Golfo del Erebus y Terra (Sobral, 1904, map p.272). Golfe de l'Erebus et de la Terror (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904c, map p.72-73). Golfo dell' Erebus e Terror (Faustini, 1904, p.4). Terror- Bugten (Nordenskjöld, 1904a, p.46). Bahías Erebus y del Terror (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 1, end map). Bahía del Erebus y del Terror (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904-05, Tomo 2, end map). Erebus en Terror-Golf (Ruys, 1905, p.108). Erebus-und Terror Gulf (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, p.77). Golfo de Erebus y Terror (Nordenskjöld, [1907a], p.44). Bahía Erebus y Terror (Irízar, [1907], p.62). Erebus-en TerrorBocht (Nordenskjöld and others, 1907, p.41). Golfo del Erebus i Terror, Golfo de Erebus i Terror (Riso Patron S., 1908, p.13 and end map). Erebus u Terror Golf (Nordenskjöld, 1911b, p.56, Fig. 20). Baie Erebus et Terror (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Erebus og Terror Gulfen (HA chart, 1928). Erebus-og Terrorbukten, Erebus og Terror Golfen (Risting, 1929, p.27, 68). The gulf was resurveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1945-54. Golfo Nueva Bilbao [=new Bilbao gulf] (Orrego Vicuña, 1948, p.202 and end map). Zaliv Erebus i Terror (Baranov and others, 1954, map p.283). Golfo de Trebus [sic] (Zavatti, 1958, Tav. 7).

Erebus and Terror Gulf (USA) 63° 55' 00.0" S 56° 40' 00.0" W Gulf
Name ID: 124861 Place ID: 4300

Gulf on the SE side of the tip of Antarctic Peninsula, bordered on the NE by the Joinville Island group and on the SW by the James Ross Island group. Named for HMS Erebus and HMS exploring these waters in 1842-43.

Erebus y Terror, golfo (ARG) 63° 40' 00.0" S 56° 40' 00.0" W Gulf
Name ID: 100807 Place ID: 4300

Erebus y Terror, Golfo (CHL) 63° 50' 00.0" S 56° 40' 00.0" W Gulf
Name ID: 105503 Place ID: 4300

Denominada en esta forma por la Expedición Antártica Británica, al mando del capitán James Clark Ross por los buque "Erebus" y "Terror", usados en las exploraciones de aguas en 1842-1843. Golfo situado en el lado SE del extremo NE de la Tierra de O'Higgins, está limitado por el NE por el grupo Ross y la costa de la península Luis Felipe por el W. El golfo se caracteriza por la gran concentración de hielos flotantes que normalmente cubren sus aguas en verano. Las aguas interiores del golfo, se encuentran completamente cubiertas de hielo consolidado, el que abre sólo en algunos veranos de condiciones glaciológicas muy favorables.

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