Lafond Bay
Lafond Bay (63°27′S 58°10′W / 63.450°S 58.167°WCoordinates: 63°27′S 58°10′W / 63.450°S 58.167°W) is a bay, 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, which lies south of the Cockerell Peninsula of the Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. Its head is fed by Sestrimo Glacier.
WikiMiniAtlasThe bay was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant , a French naval officer on the Astrolabe during her Antarctic voyage (1837–40).[1]
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- ^ "Lafond Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-05-23.
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