Posadowsky Bay

Posadowsky Bay (German: Posadowskybai) is an open embayment in the vicinity of Gaussberg, just east of the West Ice Shelf. Discovered in February 1902 by German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, who named it for Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner, Imperial Home Secretary, who secured a government grant to cover the cost of the Drygalski expedition.[1]

66°47′S 89°27′E Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Posadowsky Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 

References
  1. Wienecke, Barbara (2021). "Emperor penguins and the First German South Polar Expedition, 1901–1903: The elusive colony in Posadowsky Bay". Polar Record. 57: e15. doi:10.1017/S0032247421000115. ISSN 0032-2474.


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