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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Guyou Bay (GBR) 64° 05' 00.0" S 62° 34' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 109153 Place ID: 5821

between Claude Point and Metchnikoff Point, Pasteur Peninsula, Brabant Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1903-05, and named Baie Guyou after Capt. de Frégate Émile Guyou (1843-1915), of the French Navy, scientist and a member of the commission appointed by the Ministre de la Marine to publish the scientific results of FAE (Charcot, 1906b, p.470; 1906a, map facing p.316; BA, 1916, p.404). Guyou Bay (BA chart 1238, ix.1908; APC, 1955, p.11; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Guyou B. (HA chart, 1928). Baie Guyon [sic] (France. SHM, 1937, p.405). Bahía Guyou (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.411; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.146). Zaliv Zhuyo (Guretskiy, 1954, p.461). Cuyou [sic] Bucht, as rejected form (USBGN, 1956, p.148). The bay was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57. Bukhta Giyu (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Guyou Bay (USA) 64° 05' 00.0" S 62° 35' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 126044 Place ID: 5821

Bay 4 mi wide, which indents the W coast of Brabant Island between Claude Point and Metchnikoff Point, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the FrAE, 1903-05, under Charcot, who named it for Capt. Emile Guyou, French Navy, distinguished in the field of naval science and member of the commission which published the scientific results of the expedition.

Guyou, bahía (ARG) 64° 06' 00.0" S 62° 33' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 101094 Place ID: 5821

Guyou, Bahía (CHL) 64° 05' 00.0" S 62° 30' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 105653 Place ID: 5821

Descubierta por la Expedición Antártica Francesa, 1903-1905, al mando del Dr. Jean B. Charcot, quien le dio el nombre del capitán Emile Guyou, de la Armada Francesa, destacado en el campo de las ciencias navales y miembro de la comisión que publicó los resultados científicos de la expedición. Bahía de más o menos 4 millas de longitud, la cual penetra la costa NW de isla Brabante entre las puntas Claude y Metchnikoff, en el archipiélago de Palmer.

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