Wilhelmina Bay

[2] Coastal features include, clockwise from the eastern entrance, A study undertaken in May 2009 found a super-aggregation of krill in Wilhelmina Bay, with a large number of humpback whales feeding on them.

[3] Wilhelmina Bay was discovered by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) of 1897–99 led by Adrien de Gerlache.

Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), artist, musician, architect and first aeronautical scientist.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 after James Sadler (1751-1828), Oxford confectioner, the first English aeronaut, who ascended in a montgolfier balloon on October 4, 1784.

A point on the west coast of Graham Land projecting into Wilhelmina Bay southeast of Pelseneer Island.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for André-Jacques Garnerin (1770-1825), French aeronaut, the first man to make a successful descent from a free balloon by parachute, in 1797.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Charles-François Beautemps-Beaupré (1766-1854), French hydrographer who, in 1825, prepared survey instructions for the officers of the Astrolabe and Zelee, laying down for the first time principles for making measurements from landscape drawings.

A point within Wilhelmina Bay, lying 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) southeast of Cape Anna.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Sir Bennett M. Jones, F.R.S., author of Aerial Surveying by Rapid Methods, a pioneer work on the subject.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Carl Reinhard Hugershoff (1882-1941), German geodesist who designed the autocartograph, an instrument which first applied the principles of photogrammetry to air photos, in about 1921.

A prominent black cape rising to 280 metres (920 ft) high, forming the north tip of Arctowski Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land.

Discovered by the BelgAE, 1897-99, and named by Gerlache for Paul Pelseneer, member of the Belgica Commission and writer of some of the zoological reports of the expedition.

Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Wilhelmina Bay in center
Wilhelmina Bay
Humpback Whale in Wilhelmina Bay February 2019
Leonardo Glacier
Cruise ship in Wilhelmina Bay February 2019
Brooklyn Island