Börgen Bay ( 64°45′S 63°30′W / 64.750°S 63.500°W) is a bay 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, indenting the southeast coast of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. [1] Canty Point marks the west side of the entrance to Börgen Bay, while Bay Point marks the east entrance. [2] [3] Billie Peak stands 1.5 nautical miles (3 km) east-northeast of Bay Point. [4]
The bay and its headlands were first charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99. [1] [2] [3] The bay was named by the expedition's leader, Adrien de Gerlache, for Karl Börgen, the German astronomer. [1] Canty Point was later surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1955. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for John Canty of FIDS, radio operator/mechanic at the Arthur Harbour station in 1955 and a member of the sledging party which visited the point. [2] Bay Point is first named on a chart based on a 1927 Discovery Investigations survey, but may reflect an earlier naming. [3]
Both Hooper Glacier and William Glacier flow into the bay from inland. [5] [6] Gateway Ridge separates them from one another. [7]
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