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Salpêtrière Bay

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Salpêtrière Bay (65°4′S 64°2′W) is a bay, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) wide, between Hervéou Point and Poste Point along the west side of Booth Island, in the Wilhelm Archipelago. First charted by the French Antarctic Expedition under Dr. Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1903–05, and named by him after the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, a Paris hospital where his father, Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot, founded a clinic for the treatment of nervous diseases.

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Salpêtrière Bay Wikipedia