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Porlier Bay ( bg, залив Порлиер, zaliv Porlier, ) is the 3 km wide bay indenting for 1.6 km the north coast of

Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula Ioannes Paulus II Peninsula ( bg, Полуостров Йоан Павел II, Poluostrov Yoan Pavel II, ) is an ice-covered peninsula on the north coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica that is bounded by Hero Bay t ...

Livingston Island Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60 ...

in the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

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. It is entered between Punta del Medio and Black Point, and includes

Spiller Cove Spiller Cove is a small cove, part of Porlier Bay lying immediately west of Black Point along the north coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, which form a group of islands in the Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Penins ...

on the southeast. The area was visited by early 19th-century

sealers Sealer may refer either to a person or ship engaged in seal hunting, or to a sealant; associated terms include: Seal hunting * Sealer Hill, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica * Sealers' Oven, bread oven of mud and stone built by sealers around 180 ...

. The feature is named after Brigadier

Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta Rosendo Porlier y Asteguieta (1771–1819) was a Peruvian-born Spanish admiral, Brigadier of the Royal Spanish Navy. Porlier Bay in Livingston Island, Antarctica, where he died, is named after him. See also *San Telmo (ship) *Spanish Navy T ...

(1771–1819), commander of the

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...

naval squadron whose flagship ''San Telmo'' sank off the island with 644 men on board including Porlier in September 1819. Remnants of the ship were found subsequently at the bay.

Location

Porlier Bay is located at . British mapping in 1968, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.

Map

* L.L. Ivanov
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.

References

Bulgarian Antarctic Gazetteer.

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. (details in Bulgarian
basic data
in English)
Porlier Bay.
SCAR

Composite Antarctic Gazetteer The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about t ...

External links

Porlier Bay.
Copernix satellite image Bays of Livingston Island Bulgaria and the Antarctic {{LivingstonIsland-geo-stub