Biscoe Bay
Biscoe Bay is a bay which indents the southwest coast of Anvers Island immediately north of Biscoe Point, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. First charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him for John Biscoe, who may have landed there in February 1832.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Cove
- Description: bay
- Also known as: “Biscoe, bahia”
Biscoe Bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Biscoe Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “比斯科灣”
- German: “Biscoe Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ ביסקו”
- Italian: “Baia Biscoe”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Biscoe Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Biscoe Bay”
- Norwegian: “Biscoe Bay”
- Spanish: “Biscoe, bahía”
- Swedish: “Biscoe Bay”
- Swedish: “Biscoe, bahía”
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