🌊 Jessie Bay

Antarctica · Antarctica · 60.73°S, 44.73°W

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Jessie Bay is a bay 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, lying between Mackenzie Peninsula and Pirie Peninsula, on the north side of Laurie Island in the South Orkney Islands. Apparently seen in the course of the joint cruise by Captain George Powell, a British sealer, and Captain Nathaniel Palmer, an American one. In 1821, it was roughly charted by Captain James Weddell, a British sealer. It was surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition of William S. Bruce, who named this bay for his wife, Jessie Mackenzie Bruce. He also named a cove in the bay, Sheila Cove, for his daughter.

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Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)60.73°S, 44.73°W · view on map

Jessie Bay is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

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Adams Fjord · Adelaide Anchorage · Adélie Cove · Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) · Ainsworth Bay, Antarctica · Aitken Cove · Akkuratnaya Cove · Alasheyev Bight · Allison Bay · Amanda Bay.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

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