Dorian Bay
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Dorian Bay is a cove
on the northwest side of Wiencke Island
, 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east-northeast of Damoy Point
, in the Palmer Archipelago
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
, 1903–05, under Charcot, and named by him after Monsieur Dorian, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies
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Two structures were erected on the shores of Dorian Bay; the Argentinean Refugio Bahia Dorian in 1957, and a larger building known as the Damoy Hut in 1975, where it served flights to and from a summer-use ice-strip for aircraft used before the sea-ice cleared near Rothera Base. The Damoy hut and ice-strip was closed in 1995: the building is now listed as an Historic Site and Monument and is maintained and administered by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust.
Cove
A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often inside a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks, or recesses in a coast are often considered coves...
on the northwest side of Wiencke Island
Wiencke Island
Wiencke Island is an island long and from wide, about in area, the southernmost of the major islands of the Palmer Archipelago, lying between Anvers Island to its north and the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....
, 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east-northeast of Damoy Point
Damoy Point
Damoy Point is a point 0.5 nautical miles west-northwest of Flag Point, the north entrance point to the harbor of Port Lockroy, on the west side of Wiencke Island in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered and named by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot....
, in the Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago
Palmer Archipelago, also known as Antarctic Archipelago, Archipiélago Palmer, Antarktiske Arkipel or Palmer Inseln, is a group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula....
. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....
, 1903–05, under Charcot, and named by him after Monsieur Dorian, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies
Chamber of Deputies of France
Chamber of Deputies was the name given to several parliamentary bodies in France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries:* 1814–1848 during the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, the Chamber of Deputies was the Lower chamber of the French Parliament, elected by census suffrage.*...
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Two structures were erected on the shores of Dorian Bay; the Argentinean Refugio Bahia Dorian in 1957, and a larger building known as the Damoy Hut in 1975, where it served flights to and from a summer-use ice-strip for aircraft used before the sea-ice cleared near Rothera Base. The Damoy hut and ice-strip was closed in 1995: the building is now listed as an Historic Site and Monument and is maintained and administered by the United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust.