Piner Bay
Piner Bay is an open bay 15 kilometres long and 3.7 kilometres wide between Cape Bienvenue and the east side of Astrolabe Glacier Tongue. Discovered on January 30, 1840, by the United States Exploring Expedition under Wilkes, who named it for Thomas Piner, signal quartermaster on the USEE flagship Vincennes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dumont d’Urville Station.
Dumont d’Urville Station
Hamlet
Photo: Ehquionest, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Dumont d'Urville Station is a French scientific station in Antarctica on Île des Pétrels, archipelago of Pointe-Géologie in Adélie Land. It is named after explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville, whose expedition landed on Débarquement Rock in the Dumoulin Islands at the northeast end of the archipelago on January 21, 1840. Dumont d’Urville Station is situated 8 km northwest of Piner Bay.
Piner Bay
- Type: Cove
- Description: bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Piner Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “皮內灣”
- German: “Piner Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piner Bay”
- Swedish: “Baie Piner”
- Swedish: “Piner, Baie”
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