Andvord Bay () is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

-like

fjord In physical geography, a fjord or fiord () is a long, narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs, created by a glacier. Fjords exist on the coasts of Alaska, Antarctica, British Columbia, Chile, Denmark, Germany, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Ice ...

, long and wide, which lies between

Beneden Head Beneden Head () is a steep-sided headland, high, forming the north side of the entrance to Andvord Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, and named after Professor Edouard Van ...

and

Duthiers Point Duthiers Point () forms the south side of the entrance to Andvord Bay on the west coast of Graham Land. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache Baron Adrien Victor Joseph de Gerlache de Gomery (; 2 A ...

along the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...

. It was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, and named by him for

Rolf Andvord Rolf Otto Andvord (31 October 1890 – 8 March 1976) was a Norwegian jurist and diplomat. Biography He was born in Sør-Aurdal as a son of Kristian Andvord (1855–1934), a chief physician, and Ebba Blomstedt (1860–1953). He was a nephew of ship ...

, Belgian

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states throug ...

at Christiania (Oslo) at that time. A popular cruise-ship destination is Neko Harbour, which was discovered by Belgian explorer Adrien de Gerlache in the early 20th century. It was named for a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

whaling boat Whaling is the process of hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that became increasingly important in the Industrial Revolution. It was practiced as an organized industry ...

, the ''Neko'', which operated in the area between 1911 and 1924.

FjordEco Scientific Expedition

"Fjord Ecosystem (FjordEco) Structure and Function on the West Antarctica Peninsula – Hotspots of Productivity and Biodiversity?" is an integrated field and modeling study which aims to evaluate physical oceanographic processes, glacial inputs, plankton dynamics, and benthic community structure and function in Andvord Bay. *Christensen, K., 2017. The Upper Layer Structure and Variability of an Antarctic Glacio-marine Fjord: Andvord Bay, Western Antarctic Peninsula. *Cusick, A.M., Gilmore, R., Bombosch, A., Mascioni, M., Almandoz, G.O. and Vernet, M., 2020. Polar tourism as an effective research tool. ''Oceanography'', ''33''(1), pp.50-61. *Eidam, E.F., Nittrouer, C.A., Lundesgaard, Ø., Homolka, K.K. and Smith, C.R., 2019. Variability of sediment accumulation rates in an Antarctic fjord. ''Geophysical Research Letters'', ''46''(22), pp.13271-13280. *Ekern, L., 2017. ''Assessing seasonal primary production in Andvord Bay, Antarctica'' (Master thesis, UC San Diego). *Forsch, K., Hahn-Woernle, L., Sherrell, R., Roccanova, J., Bu, K., Burdige, D., Vernet, M. and Barbeau, K.A., 2021. Seasonal dispersal of fjord meltwaters as an important source of iron to coastal Antarctic phytoplankton. ''Biogeosciences Discussions'', pp.1-49. *Hahn-Woernle, L., Powell, B., Lundesgaard, Ø. and van Wessem, M., 2020. Sensitivity of the summer upper ocean heat content in a Western Antarctic Peninsula fjord. ''Progress in Oceanography'', ''183'', p.102287. *Hamilton, M., 2021. ''The Molecular Diversity and Physiology of Polar Phytoplankton'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz). *Lewis, M., 2018. ''Assessing the down-fjord mechanistic relationships of biodiversity and abundance of Antarctic benthic macrofauna of Andvord Bay'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa). *Lundesgaard, Ø., 2018. ''Physical processes in a Western Antarctic Peninsula fjord'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of Hawai'i at Manoa). * Lundesgaard, Ø., B. Powell, M. Merrifield, L. Hahn-Woernle, and P. Winsor, 2019,
Response of an Antarctic Peninsula Fjord to Summer Katabatic Wind Events
', J. Phys. Oceanogr., 49, 1485–1502, https://doi.org/10.1175/JPO-D-18-0119.1 * Mascioni, M., Almandoz, G.O., Ekern, L., Pan, B.J. and Vernet, M., 2021. Microplanktonic diatom assemblages dominated the primary production but not the biomass in an Antarctic fjord. ''Journal of Marine Systems'', ''224'', p.103624. *Pan, B.J., 2020. ''The Impact of Seasonal Environmental Variables on Phytoplankton Ecology at the Antarctic Ice-Ocean Boundary: Studies Through Field Work, Numerical Models, Data Science, and Machine Learning''. University of California, San Diego. *Pan, B.J., Vernet, M., Manck, L., Forsch, K., Ekern, L., Mascioni, M., Barbeau, K, Almandoz, G., and Orona, A.J., 2020,
Environmental Drivers of Phytoplankton Taxonomic Composition in an Antarctic Fjord
', Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102295, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2020.102295 * Pan, B.J., Vernet, M., Reynolds, R.A., and Mitchell, B.G., 2020,
The optical and biological properties of glacial meltwater in an Antarctic fjord
', PLoS ONE, 14, 2, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211107 *Smith Craig, R., Vernet, M., Winsor, P., Lundesgaard, O., Powell, B., Truffer, M., Merrifield, M., Sweetman, A., Nunnally, C., Ziegler, A. and Lewis, M., 2017, July. Multi-disciplinary studies of Andvord Bay indicate katabatic wind forcing, pulses of export flux, and high food availability and benthic abundance in inner fjord basins. In ''Book of Abstracts'' (p. 429). *Ziegler, A.F., Cape, M., Lundesgaard, Ø. and Smith, C.R., 2020. Intense deposition and rapid processing of seafloor phytodetritus in a glaciomarine fjord, Andvord Bay (Antarctica). ''Progress in Oceanography'', ''187'', p.102413. * Ziegler, A.F., Smith, C.R., Edwards, K.F. and Vernet, M., 2017. Glacial dropstones: islands enhancing seafloor species richness of benthic megafauna in West Antarctic Peninsula fjords. ''Marine Ecology Progress Series'', ''583'', pp.1-14.

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