Bahia Dorian Refuge | |
Settlement Type: | Refuge |
Flag Size: | 110px |
Flag Border: | no |
Mapsize: | 270px |
Pushpin Map: | Antarctic Peninsula |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Dorian Bay in Antarctic Peninsula |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 270 |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Coordinates: | -64.8176°N -63.5041°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | |
Subdivision Type1: | Location in Antarctica |
Subdivision Name1: | Dorian Bay Wiencke Island Antarctica |
Subdivision Type3: | Administered by |
Subdivision Name3: | Argentine Antarctica |
Established Title: | Established |
Blank Name Sec1: | Type |
Blank Info Sec1: | Seasonal |
Blank Name Sec2: | Status |
Blank Info Sec2: | Operational |
Dorian Bay is a cove on the northwest side of Wiencke Island, 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) east-northeast of Damoy Point, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named by him after Monsieur Dorian, a member of the French Chamber of Deputies.
Two structures were erected on the shores of Dorian Bay; the Argentine 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 were 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.
Starting in 1990, Amyr Klink spent 13 months in Dorian Bay with the ship Paratii. The wintering is the theme of his book Between Two Poles.