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Quaker Harbour is the irregularly shaped bay indenting for 3.7 km the north coast of Weddell Island in the
''A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822–24''.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1825. p. 77
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)
Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island
Falkland-Islands-Chart-Charles-Barnard-1815.png, Swan Island (present Weddell Island) and Quaker Harbour on a pre 1829 Falklands map by Charles Barnard
File:Weddell-Island-Map-1901.png, Old map of Weddell Island featuring Quaker Harbour
Weddell-Island-Map.png, Map of Weddell Island
''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118
Weddell Island Official Website
Weddell Island from space.
NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 Bays of the Falkland Islands {{Weddell-Island-geo-stub
Quaker Harbour is the irregularly shaped bay indenting for 3.7 km the north coast of Weddell Island in the Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...
. It is centred at , and has its head fed by Pitt Creek. The bay takes its name from nearby Quaker Island.
The British navigator and Antarctic explorer James Weddell
James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarc ...
, who visited the Falklands in 1819–1824, overwintered ashore on Weddell Island (known at that time as Swan Island) at Quaker Harbour in May–September 1823.J. Weddell''A Voyage Towards the South Pole, Performed in the Years 1822–24''.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orne, Brown and Green, 1825. p. 77
Maps
* ''The Falkland Islands''. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901 * Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007 * Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)
Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island
Gallery
Notes
References
* B. Stonehouse (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans''. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. * C.H. Barnard''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118
External links
Weddell Island Official Website
Weddell Island from space.
NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 Bays of the Falkland Islands {{Weddell-Island-geo-stub