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Bourgeois Fjord
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Bourgeois Fjord
Bourgeois Fjord
is an inlet, long in a northeast–southwest direction and wide, lying between the east sides of
Pourquoi Pas Island
and
Blaiklock Island
and the west coast of
Graham Land
. It separates
Loubet Coast
to the north from
Fallières Coast
to the south. The fjord was discovered by the
French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10
, under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
, and named by him for Colonel Joseph E. Bourgeois, Director of the Geographic Service of the
French Army
. The outline of this inlet was more accurately delineated in 1936 by the
British Graham Land Expedition
under
John Rymill
.
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