Duse Bay

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title: "Duse Bay" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bays-of-trinity-peninsula"] description: "Bay in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/bays-of-trinity-peninsula" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duse_Bay" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Bay in Antarctica ::

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| name = | image = File:Duse Bay, Antarctica.jpg | image_size = | caption = From View Point looking east across Duse Bay | location = | group = | coordinates = | type = | part_of = | basin_countries = | length = | width = | pushpin_map = Antarctica | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = | pushpin_map_caption = Duse Bay () is a bay indenting the south side of Trinity Peninsula between View Point and the western side of Tabarin Peninsula, Antarctica.

Location

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Trinity_Peninsula.svg" caption="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. }

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.

Features

Features and nearby features include, clockwise from the southwest,

Skomlya Hill

A rocky hill rising to 353 m high at the base of a promontory projecting 5.5 km eastwards and ending in View Point. Situated 8.95 km southeast of Theodolite Hill and 6.79 km west of View Point. Named after the settlement of Skomlya in Northwestern Bulgaria.

View Point

Main article: View Point

Boil Point

Retizhe Cove

Garvan Point

Mount Cardinall

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Mount_Cardinall,_Antarctica.jpg" caption="Mount Cardinall"] ::

Mondor Glacier

Thimble Peak

References

Sources

  • {{citation|url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/fedgov/70039167/report.pdf |accessdate=2023-12-03 |edition=2 |editor-last=Alberts |title=Geographic Names of the Antarctic |editor-first=Fred G. |publisher=United States Board on Geographic Names |year=1995}}
  • {{citation |url=https://livingatlas2.arcgis.com/antarcticdemexplorer/ |accessdate=2024-06-03 |type=Digital Elevation Models created by the Polar Geospatial Center from Maxar imagery |title=Antarctic REMA Explorer |publisher=Polar Geospatial Center, University of Minnesota |year=2019 |ref= }}
  • {{cite scar2 |id=137152 |name=Boil Point}}
  • {{cite scar2 |id=137122 |name=Garvan Point}}
  • {{citation |url=https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agdm/id/7696/ |accessdate=2024-05-03 |title=Graham Land and South Shetland Islands |publisher=BAS: British Antarctic Survey |year=2005 |ref= }}
  • {{cite scar2 |id=137208 |name=Retizhe Cove}}
  • {{cite scar2 |id=137200 |name=Skomlya Hill}}
  • {{citation |publisher=Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey |year=1996 |archivedate= 23 September 2015 |title=Trinity Peninsula |type=Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697 |ref= |url=http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_193194/DE/Bundesamt/Downloads/Kostenlose-Karten/Antarktis-Karten/Satellitenbildkarten/Scale250/Daten/Trinity-Peninsula,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Trinity-Peninsula.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923191640/http://www.bkg.bund.de/nn_193194/DE/Bundesamt/Downloads/Kostenlose-Karten/Antarktis-Karten/Satellitenbildkarten/Scale250/Daten/Trinity-Peninsula,templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/Trinity-Peninsula.pdf}}

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