Salpêtrière Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Salpêtrière Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
SE of Hervéou Point, Booth Island, Graham Coast, was charted by FAE, 1903-05, in 1904 and named Baie de la Salpêtrière after the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in Paris, where Dr J.-M. Charcot (Charcot Island, q.v.) founded a clinic for the treatment of nervous diseases (Charcot, 19ê06b, p.473; 1908, map p.36). Baie de Salpêtrière (Gourdon, 1908, p.21 and end map). Salpêtrière Bay (Charcot, [1911b], p.65; APC, 1959a, p.11). Salpètrière [sic] Bay (USHO, 1943, p.136). Bahía Salpêtrière (Argentina. MM chart 107, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.253). Bahía de la Salpêtrière (Argentina. MM chart 129, 1957; Pierrou, 1970, p.644). The bay was photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956.
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