Duse Bay

Duse Bay
From View Point looking east across Duse Bay
Duse Bay is located in Antarctica
Duse Bay
Duse Bay
Coordinates63°32′S 57°15′W / 63.533°S 57.250°W / -63.533; -57.250 (Duse Bay)

Duse Bay (63°32′S 57°15′W / 63.533°S 57.250°W / -63.533; -57.250 (Duse Bay)) is a bay indenting the south side of Trinity Peninsula between View Point and the western side of Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica.[1]

Location

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Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula. Druse Bay towards southeast end

Duse Bay is in Graham Land in the Trinity Peninsula, which is the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is south of the Mott Snowfield, east of View Point and west of the Tabarin Peninsula. It opens onto the Prince Gustav Channel. Mondor Glacier flows into the northeast corner of the bay. The Argentine Esperanza Base is on the east side of the bay.[2][3] }

Discovery and name

Duse Bay was discovered by a party under Johan Gunnar Andersson, of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE), 1901–04, and was named by Otto Nordenskiöld, the leader of that expedition, for Lieutenant S.A. Duse.[1]

Features

Features and nearby features include, clockwise from the southwest,

Skomlya Hill

63°32′45″S 57°30′15″W / 63.54583°S 57.50417°W / -63.54583; -57.50417 A rocky hill rising to 353 metres (1,158 ft)[4] high at the base of a promontory projecting 5.5 kilometres (3.4 mi) eastwards and ending in View Point. Situated 8.95 kilometres (5.56 mi) southeast of Theodolite Hill and 6.79 kilometres (4.22 mi) west of View Point. Named after the settlement of Skomlya in Northwestern Bulgaria.[5]

View Point

Main article: View Point

63°33′S 57°22′W / 63.550°S 57.367°W / -63.550; -57.367. Eastern tip of a promontory, 150 metres (490 ft) high forming the west side of the entrance to Duse Bay on the south coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the SwedAE, 1901-04. So named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following their survey of the area in 1945 because from this promontory, good panoramic photographs were obtained.[6]

Boil Point

63°29′46″S 57°26′35″W / 63.49611°S 57.44306°W / -63.49611; -57.44306. A point that forms the west side of the entrance to Retizhe Cove. Situated 6.45 kilometres (4.01 mi) northwest of View Point, 7.45 kilometres (4.63 mi) southeast of Theodolite Hill, 8.45 kilometres (5.25 mi) south of Camel Nunataks and 5.82 kilometres (3.62 mi) west-southwest of Garvan Point. Named after the settlement of Boil in Northeastern Bulgaria.[7]

Retizhe Cove

63°28′10″S 57°25′30″W / 63.46944°S 57.42500°W / -63.46944; -57.42500. A 5.8 kilometres (3.6 mi) wide cove indenting for 6.2 kilometres (3.9 mi) the south coast of Trinity Peninsular. Part of Duse Bay, entered between Boil Point to the west and Garvan Point to the east. Named after the Retizhe river in Pirin mountain, Southwestern Bulgaria.[8]

Garvan Point

63°28′51″S 57°19′52″W / 63.48083°S 57.33111°W / -63.48083; -57.33111. A rocky point forming the east side of the entrance to Retizhe Cove. Situated 7.18 kilometres (4.46 mi) north by east of View Point and 5.82 kilometres (3.62 mi) east-northeast of Boil Point. Named after the settlements of Garvan in Northern and Northeastern Bulgaria.[9]

Mount Cardinall

Mount Cardinall

63°27′S 57°10′W / 63.450°S 57.167°W / -63.450; -57.167. A conical mountain, 675 metres (2,215 ft) high, lying close southwest of Mount Taylor and overlooking the northeast head of Duse Bay. Probably first seen by a party under J. Gunnar Andersson of the SwedAE, 1901-04. Charted in 1945 by the FIDS, who named it for Sir Allan Cardinall, then Governor of the Falkland Islands.[10]

Mondor Glacier

63°28′S 57°08′W / 63.467°S 57.133°W / -63.467; -57.133. A glacier 3.5 nautical miles (6.5 km; 4.0 mi) long flowing southwest from the head of Depot Glacier into Duse Bay. This glacier and Depot Glacier together fill the depression between Hope Bay and Duse Bay which marks the northern limit of the Tabarin Peninsula. Mapped in 1946 and 1956 by the FIDS, who named the feature in association with Tabarin Peninsula. "Operation Tabarin" (the forerunner of FIDS) was derived from the "Bal Tabarin" in Paris. In Recueil General des Oeuvres et Fantaisies de Tabarin, Tabarin was the buffoon who attracted the crowd to the booth where Mondor sold his quack medicines.[11]

Thimble Peak

63°27′S 57°06′W / 63.450°S 57.100°W / -63.450; -57.100. Truncated cone, 485 metres (1,591 ft) high, consisting of rock and ice, standing at the east side of Mondor Glacier and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) northeast of Duse Bay at the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. First charted by the FIDS in 1946. The descriptive name was given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1948.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b Alberts 1995, p. 205.
  2. ^ Trinity Peninsula AG and BAS.
  3. ^ Graham Land and South Shetland BAS.
  4. ^ Antarctic REMA Explorer, 63°32′45″S 57°30′15″W.
  5. ^ Skomlya Hill SCAR.
  6. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 784.
  7. ^ Boil Point SCAR.
  8. ^ Retizhe Cove SCAR.
  9. ^ Garvan Point SCAR.
  10. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 118.
  11. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 500.
  12. ^ Alberts 1995, p. 742.

Sources

  • Alberts, Fred G., ed. (1995), Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (2 ed.), United States Board on Geographic Names, retrieved 2023-12-03 Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Board on Geographic Names.
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