Charcot Bay (63°48′S 59°35′W / 63.800°S 59.583°W / -63.800; -59.583 (Charcot Bay)) is a bay about 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) wide between Cape...
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discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay, Mount Boland and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, Jean-Martin Charcot. He named Hugo Island after Victor...
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of Jean-Martin Charcot Charcot Bay Charcot Cove Charcot Island Charcot Plate, a tectonic plate under West Antarctica Cape Charcot Charcot Station, a French...
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Booth Island (redirect from Port Charcot)
peninsula, with a bay lying between it and Vanssay Point. This bay has been named Port Charcot. To westward of Cholet Isle Is Libois Bay, a small protected...
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in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named the bay for his wife. Toadstool Rocks are a group of insular, ice-covered...
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Bay is on the north shore of the western end of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is northeast of Charcot Bay...
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Flyspot Rocks. Mikkelsen Bay was first seen from a distance in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but was not recognized...
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Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The bay was so named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by whalers...
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northeast part of Flandres Bay. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE; 1903-05) and named by Jean-Baptiste Charcot for Aristide Briand (1862-1932)...
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refer to: Cape Kjellman, a cape marking the east side of the entrance to Charcot Bay Kjellman machine gun, a machine gun produced in Sweden People Björn Kjellman...
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Alexander Island. The bay was first sighted from a distance in 1909 and roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot who, thinking it to...
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Plateau to the Gavin Ice Piedmont, which lies to the south of Bone Bay and east of Charcot Bay. It passes Ivory Pinnacles, Poynter Col and Poynter Hill on its...
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Adélie Land (section Charcot Station (1957–60))
destroyed by a fire in 1952, and replaced by Dumont d'Urville Station in 1956. Charcot Station was a French inland base built which was occupied from 1957 to...
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Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, for Jules Girard of the Paris Société de Géographie. "Girard Bay". Geographic Names Information System...
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Bone Bay on the Bransfield Strait, northeast of Charcot Bay, east of the Orléans Strait, south of Astrolabe Island and southwest of Lafond Bay. It is...
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Greenland (redirect from Kangat Bay)
Saqqaq culture. Most finds of remains from that period have been around Disko Bay, including the site of Saqqaq, for which the culture is named. From 2400 BC...
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discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who named it for Vice Admiral Charles Duperré of the French Navy. Antarctic...
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Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) (63°23′S 56°59′W / 63.383°S 56.983°W / -63.383; -56.983 (Hope Bay)) is a bay 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi)...
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Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies, who assisted Jean-Baptiste Charcot in obtaining government funding for his French Antarctic Expedition. The...
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Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10. The name derives from the ship SS Telefon, which was repaired here. The bay forms part of an Antarctic Specially...
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot and named by him for the wife of Sub-Lieutenant Maurice Bongrain, French Navy, second officer of the expedition. Charcot had climbed...
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Girard Bay and its northwestern side on Lemaire Channel. Discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. Mapped by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, leader...
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot applied the name "Cap Legru" to a feature which has now been identified as Martins Head. As the latter has priority, Charcot's name has...
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entrance point to Hughes Bay. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE), 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. The name, which appears on...
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Jean-Baptiste Charcot. Gerlache Strait Geology Anvers Island Geology This article incorporates public domain material from "Dallmann Bay". Geographic...
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of the expedition. The bay was more accurately mapped by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot. British Antarctic Territory...
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Marguerite Bay was discovered in 1909 and Charcot named the bay after his wife. Jenny Island, in Marguerite Bay, was discovered and named by Charcot for the...
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Sabine Glacier (redirect from Jordanoff Bay)
Strait to the west of Cape Kater. Lanchester Bay is to the west, Detroit Plateau to the south and Charcot Bay to the east. Captain Henry Foster gave the...
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List of glaciers of Adélie Land (redirect from Commandant Charcot Glacier)
glacier, in December 1952. Named by the FrAE for the polar ship Commandant Charcot which transported French expeditions to this area, 1948-52. Not: Commandant...
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Rock, Antarctica. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. It was delineated...
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