bigourdan, fjord, sound, miles, long, east, west, direction, averaging, miles, wide, lying, between, pourquoi, island, southwest, part, arrowsmith, peninsula, along, west, coast, graham, land, antarctica, discovered, french, antarctic, expedition, 1908, under,. Bigourdan Fjord is a sound 12 miles 19 km long in an east west direction and averaging 2 miles 3 km wide lying between Pourquoi Pas Island and the southwest part of Arrowsmith Peninsula along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition 1908 10 under Jean Baptiste Charcot and named by him for Guillaume Bigourdan a noted French astronomer It was roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition 1934 37 under John Riddoch Rymill and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey 1948 50 67 33 S 67 23 W 67 550 S 67 383 W 67 550 67 383See also EditSwash ReefReferences Edit This article incorporates public domain material from Bigourdan Fjord Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey This Loubet Coast location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Bigourdan Fjord amp oldid 1113457977, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
