Lapeyrère Bay () is long and wide, and lies north of

Gourdon Peninsula Gourdon Peninsula () is a snow-covered peninsula long, forming the southeast side of Lapeyrere Bay on the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. The northeast coast of Anvers Island was roughly surveyed by the F ...

, indenting the northeast coast of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. Its head is fed by

Iliad Glacier Iliad Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeast from the central highlands of Anvers Island between the Achaean Range and the Trojan Range into Lapeyrere Bay, in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It was surveyed in 1955 by the Falkland Island ...

. The bay was roughly charted by the German expedition under Eduard Dallmann, 1873–74. It was recharted by the

French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05 The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. First expedition In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...

, and named by

Jean-Baptiste Charcot Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Auguste Charcot (15 July 1867 – 16 September 1936), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist, medical doctor and polar scientist. His father was the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893). Life Jean-Ba ...

for Rear Admiral Boué de Lapeyrère of the

French Navy The French Navy (french: Marine nationale, lit=National Navy), informally , is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the five military service branches of France. It is among the largest and most powerful naval forces in t ...

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Bays of the Palmer Archipelago Geography of Anvers Island {{AnversIsland-geo-stub

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