Boisguehenneuc Bay ( bg, text=залив Боагееньок, italic=no, ‘Zaliv Boisguehenneuc’ \'za-liv bo-a-ge-e-'nyok\) is the 6.9 km wide bay indenting for 2.4 km the northwest coast of

Liège Island Liège Island (in English also Liege Island) is an island, long and wide, lying immediately northeast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, and separated from Hoseason Island and Christiania Islands to the northeast by Croker Passage. ...

in the

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. It is entered northeast of Bebresh Point and southwest of the west extremity of

Kran Peninsula Kran Peninsula ( bg, полуостров Крън, poluostrov Kran, ) is the heavily indented peninsula forming the northeast extremity of Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It extends 2.85 km in north-south direction and ...

, with its head fed by

Shterna Glacier Shterna Glacier ( bg, ледник Щерна, lednik Shterna, ) is the glacier extending 3.6 km in east-west direction and 2.2 km in north-south direction on Liège Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is situated northea ...

. Raklitsa Island is lying in the central part of the bay.Boisguehenneuc Bay.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The bay is named after Lieutenant Charles Marc du Boisguehenneuc (1740-1778), a member of the

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expedition of Kerguelen-Trémarec who made the first recorded landing south of the

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, on

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on 14 February 1772.

Location

Boisguehenneuc Bay is centred at . British mapping in 1978.

Maps

British Antarctic Territory.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 63 60. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, UK, 1978.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.

Notes

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Boisguehenneuc Bay.
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

External links

Boisguehenneuc Bay.
Copernix satellite image Bays of Graham Land Landforms of the Palmer Archipelago Bulgaria and the Antarctic Liège Island {{LiegeIsland-geo-stub