Lafond Bay () is a bay, wide, which lies south of the Cockerell Peninsula,

Trinity Peninsula Trinity Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Antarctic Peninsula. It extends northeastward for about 130 km (80 mi) to Cape Dubouzet from an imaginary line connecting Cape Kater on the north-west coast and Cape Longing on the sou ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Lafond Bay is in

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 ...

on the north coast of the

, which forms the tip of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It is east of Bone Bay and west of Huon Bay, from which it is separated by the Cockerell Peninsula and Cape Ducorps. It is southeast of

Astrolabe Island Astrolabe Island () is an island long, lying in the Bransfield Strait northwest of Cape Ducorps, Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Astrolabe Island is in Graham Land. It lies in the Bransfield Strait to the west-northwest of the Tupin ...

, in the

Bransfield Strait Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea () is a body of water about wide extending for in a general northeast – southwest direction between the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula. History The strait was named in about 1825 by James W ...

. The

Louis Philippe Plateau The Louis Philippe Plateau () is a plateau, about long and wide, which rises to and occupies the central part of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Russell West Glacier and Windy Gap (Antarctica), Windy Gap. Location The Louis Philippe P ...

is to the south and the Laclavère Plateau is to the southeast.
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Exporation and name

The bay was surveyed by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS; 1960–61), and was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) after Lieutenant Pierre Lafond, a French naval officer on the ''

Astrolabe An astrolabe (; ; ) is an astronomy, astronomical list of astronomical instruments, instrument dating to ancient times. It serves as a star chart and Model#Physical model, physical model of the visible celestial sphere, half-dome of the sky. It ...

'' during her Antarctic voyage (1837–40).

Features

Cockerell Peninsula

. An ice-covered, bulb-shaped peninsula between Lafond Bay and Huon Bay on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by the

French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. 1837–1840 In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...

, 1837-40, under Captain

Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 May 1842) was a French List of explorers, explorer and French Navy, naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist an ...

. Named in 1977 by the UK-APC after Sir Christopher (Sydney) Cockerell, British pioneer of the

hovercraft A hovercraft (: hovercraft), also known as an air-cushion vehicle or ACV, is an amphibious craft capable of travelling over land, water, mud, ice, and various other surfaces. Hovercraft use blowers to produce a large volume of air below the ...

Cape Ducorps

. A point marking the north end of Cockerell Peninsula on the north coast of Trinity Peninsula. Discovered by a French expedition, 1837-40, under Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville, and named by him for Louis Ducorps, a member of the expedition.

Sestrimo Glacier

. The long and wide glacier on Trinity Peninsula east of

Mount D'Urville Mount D'Urville is one of the highest points on Auckland Island, one of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands, and is named after French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (; 23 May 1790 – 8 M ...

. Flowing northwards to enter Bransfield Strait at Lafond Bay. Named after the settlement of Sestrimo in Southern Bulgaria.

Nearby features

Peralta Rocks

. A group of about eight small rocks covering an area , lying N of Cape Ducorps. Named by the Chilean Antarctic Expedition, 1949-50, for Lt. Roberto Peralta Bell, second-in-command of the oil tanker ''Lientur''.

Tupinier Islands

. Group of pyramid-shaped islands lying off the north coast of Trinity Peninsula, about west of Cape Ducorps. Discovered by the French expedition under Captain

, 1837-40, and named after the Baron Tupinier (1779-1850), an official of the French Navy Dept. who was instrumental in obtaining government support for the expedition. The islands were recharted by the FIDS, 1946.

Molina Rocks

. A small group of rocks west of Tupinier Islands. The name appears on a Chilean government chart of 1951.

References

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