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25-709: Wilhelmina Bay is on the Danco Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula . Piccard Cove in the south of Wilhelmina Bay is bordered by the Arctowski Peninsula to the northwest and Forbidden Plateau to the northeast. To the north, Wilhelmina Bay opens into the Gerlache Strait . Piccard Cove was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition (BelgAE) under Adrien de Gerlache , 1897–99. It

50-562: A civil engineering firm in Manchester . In his spare time he became interested in photography and taught himself how to take and develop photographs. He was technically minded and was able to construct his own camera obscuras from cigar boxes and eyeglass lenses. The discovery of rich goldfields in Australia in 1851 drew young men from the United Kingdom and elsewhere to try their luck on

75-581: A job as a wagon driver taking supplies to the diggings and sleeping by the road at night with a bag of oats as a pillow. He was then briefly a cook at a roadside inn on the way to the gold fields. Next he worked for a surveyor's office as a draftsman copying plans of sub-divided allotments in South Melbourne . During this time he lived in a tent city established on the south bank of the Yarra River , rental accommodation being scarce and expensive. His employer

100-495: A large collection of photos of “native type,” craftsmen, servants, dancers, musicians and food vendors. These were sold to tourists and Dutch officials as individual postcards or in albums. They also accepted commissions to take portraits of indigenous dignitaries and their retinues. The firm regularly advertised their products and services in newspapers. On 18 March 1861 Woodbury & Page moved to new premises, also in Batavia, and

125-734: A regular supplier of photographic materials for his photographic studio and he contracted the London firm Negretti and Zambra to market Woodbury & Page photographs in England. Woodbury returned to Java in 1860 and during most of that year travelled with Page through Central and West Java along with Walter's brother, Henry James Woodbury (born 1836 – died 1873), who had arrived in Batavia in April 1859. Woodbury & Page sold photographs of topographical views, temples and portraits of high ranking Dutch officials and members of Indonesian aristocracy. They had

150-537: Is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard . This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache , who named it for Lieutenant Emile Danco who died on the expedition. The coast is bordered by the Aguirre Passage which separates it from Lemaire Island . The Danco Coast Tectonic Block includes

175-605: The Berriasian - Cenomanian granite and gabbro sills of the Andean Instrusive Suite. A system of hypabbysal dykes intruded during the Late Cretaceous or Tertiary . This Danco Coast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Walter B. Woodbury Walter Bentley Woodbury (26 June 1834 – 5 September 1885) was an inventor and pioneering English photographer. He

200-658: The Upper Permian - Triassic Trinity Peninsula Group , consisting of over 1000 m of metaturbidites folded during the Gondwanide orogeny . This group is overlain by the Lower Cretaceous Antarctic Peninsula Volcanic Group, with up to 2000 m of basaltic and andesitic lavas , tuffs and agglomerates , which were folded and faulted during the Tertiary . These two groups were intruded by

225-877: The Bulgarian enlightener and revolutionary Bacho Kiro (Kiro Zanev, 1835-1876). 64°48′34.0″S 62°15′52.0″W  /  64.809444°S 62.264444°W  / -64.809444; -62.264444 . An ice-covered buttress rising to 1,891 metres (6,204 ft) high between Moser Glacier , Woodbury Glacier and Montgolfier Glacier, linked by a saddle to Forbidden Plateau to the southeast. Situated 4.65 kilometres (2.89 mi) southeast of The Downfall, and 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) south of Bacho Kiro Peak. Named after Mechit Peak in Rila Mountain, Bulgaria. 64°47′S 62°20′W  /  64.783°S 62.333°W  / -64.783; -62.333 . Glacier just west of Montgolfier Glacier, flowing into Piccard Cove. Mapped by

250-543: The FIDS from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Walter B. Woodbury (1834–85), English pioneer of photomechanical printing in 1865 and of serial film cameras for use in balloons and kites in 1877. 64°42′00″S 62°18′00″W  /  64.70000°S 62.30000°W  / -64.70000; -62.30000 . A point on the east side of Arctowski Peninsula. The point stands between

275-639: The Philippines. They arrived at Batavia (now Jakarta ), Dutch East Indies, on 18 May 1857. They decided to stay and established the partnership of Woodbury & Page that same year. During most of 1858 Woodbury & Page photographed in Central and East Java , producing large views of the ruined temples near Surakarta , amongst other subjects, before 1 September of that year. After their tour of Java, by 8 December 1858 Woodbury and Page had returned to Batavia. In 1859 Woodbury returned to England to arrange

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300-689: The construction of ducts and other waterworks under construction for the Yan Yean Reservoir as well as various buildings in Melbourne. The quality of his work was recognised and he received a medal for “9 views of Melbourne, taken by the collodion process on glass” at the Victorian Exhibition in 1854. He decided to see if he could earn a living from his photography. He travelled into through central Victoria and visiting towns such as Kyneton . He and another young man named Spencer then travelled to

325-539: The diggings. Walter Woodbury was one of them. He departed by sea on 5 July 1852 with three friends. His mother paid his fare and provided a little spending money. Woodbury was 18 years of age when he arrived at Melbourne on the Seramphore (950 tons) in October 1852. He had intended to immediately go to the diggings but changed his mind after hearing not one in a hundred was earning enough to pay for their food. He found

350-559: The east side of the entrance to Piccard Cove, Wilhelmina Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. First charted and named by the BelgAE under Gerlache in 1898. 64°46′43.0″S 62°08′39.0″W  /  64.778611°S 62.144167°W  / -64.778611; -62.144167 . A rocky, partly ice-covered ridge extending 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) in SE-NW direction, 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) wide and rising to 1,292 metres (4,239 ft) high in

375-675: The entrances of Beaupré Cove and Piccard Cove in Wilhelmina Bay. Named after James D. O'Neal, cartographer, Special Maps Branch, United States Geological Survey , who was United States Observer with the Chilean Antarctic Expedition , October 1956-April 1957, working in the South Shetland Islands and northwestern Antarctic Peninsula . Danco Coast The Danco Coast ( 64°42′S 62°0′W  /  64.700°S 62.000°W  / -64.700; -62.000 )

400-400: The first photographic panorama in Australia. It was a set of photographs of Melbourne taken from a tower on the outskirts of the city. He was offering for sale stereoscopic views of Melbourne and environs by April 1857. At some point in the mid-1850s Woodbury met expatriate British photographer James Page (1833-1865). In 1857 the two left Melbourne and sailed for Japan, China, Japan and

425-524: The goldfields of the north-east to see if they could earn a living from making portraits of the miners. They settled for a few months at the gold-mining town of Beechworth , where they established a studio and took photographs of the Spring Creek and Woolshed Creek diggings. By December 1855, he had established himself as a portrait photographer with a studio in North Melbourne . That year he created

450-772: The mounts of his photographs: "Photographed by Walter Woodbury, Java". In late January or early February 1863, Woodbury left Java to return to England, because of ill health. Having returned to England, Woodbury invented the Woodburytype photomechanical reproduction process, which he patented in 1864. Between 1864 and 1885 Woodbury took out more than 30 patents in Britain and abroad for inventions relating to balloon photography , transparencies , sensitised films and improvements in optical lanterns and stereoscopy . In addition to his inventions, Woodbury produced photographs documenting London's poor. In 1865 his Woodburytype process

475-692: The north foothills of Forbidden Plateau. Situated 5.55 kilometres (3.45 mi) east of Bacho Kiro Peak, 5.34 kilometres (3.32 mi) south-southwest of Pishtachev Peak . Surmounts Rozier Glacier to the northeast, Montgolfier Glacier to the sputhwest, and Wilhelmina Bay and its southwesterly part Piccard Cove to the northwest where the ridge ends in Sophie Cliff. Named after the Thracian god Balis. 64°47′S 62°15′W  /  64.783°S 62.250°W  / -64.783; -62.250 . Glacier flowing to Piccard Cove between Rozier and Woodbury Glaciers on

500-634: The studio was renamed Photographisch Atelier van Walter Woodbury , also known as Atelier Woodbury . The firm sold portraits, views of Java, stereographs , cameras, lenses, photographic chemicals and other photographic supplies. These premises continued to be used until 1908, when the firm was dissolved. In his career Woodbury produced topographic, ethnographic and especially portrait photographs. He photographed in Australia, Java, Sumatra , Borneo and London. Although individual photographers were rarely identified on Woodbury & Page photographs, between 1861 and 1862 Walter B. Woodbury occasionally stamped

525-965: The west coast of Graham Land. Mapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for the Montgolfier brothers , Joseph M. Montgolfier (1740-1810) and his brother Etienne J. Montgolfier (1745–99), French papermakers, inventors of the hot-air balloon, 1782–83, and pioneer balloonists. 64°47′02.0″S 62°15′36.0″W  /  64.783889°S 62.260000°W  / -64.783889; -62.260000 . A rocky, partly ice-free peak rising to 1,419 metres (4,656 ft) high between Woodbury Glacier and Montgolfier Glacier. Situated 4.35 kilometres (2.70 mi) east of The Downfall , 5.55 kilometres (3.45 mi) south-southwest of Sophie Cliff, and 2.9 kilometres (1.8 mi) north of Mechit Buttress. Named after

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550-582: Was an early photographer in Australia and the Dutch East Indies (what is now Indonesia ). He also patented numerous inventions relating to various aspects of photography, his best-known innovation being the woodburytype photomechanical process. Walter B. Woodbury was born in Manchester , England on 26 June 1834. His father, John, died at the age of 36, when Walter was only 12. He then went to live with an uncle after his mother remarried. In 1848 he left school and began work as an apprentice draftsman in

575-766: Was bought by the Photo Relief Company, then bought by the Woodbury Permanent Photographic Printing Company and then bought by a succession of other companies in Britain and elsewhere. Woodbury married Marie Sophia Olmeijer in 1863. The couple had eight children. Walter B. Woodbury died on 5 September 1885 while on holiday in Margate , England. He was buried at Abney Park Cemetery in Stoke Newington , close to London, where his family memorial stands to this day. His gravestone notes that he

600-525: Was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Auguste Piccard , Swiss physicist, stratosphere pioneer who reached a height of 9.5 nautical miles (17.6 km; 10.9 mi) in a hydrogen-filled balloon in 1931. Download coordinates as: Features, clockwise from the east, include 64°44′S 62°15′W  /  64.733°S 62.250°W  / -64.733; -62.250 . Conspicuous granite cliff at

625-600: Was the surveyor William Dawson (1820-1873) who was active in the colony at the time. They worked in rural Victoria where in February 1853 they did a survey for the township of Meredith and surveyed the route of a new road from Geelong to Ballarat . He liked his employer and taught him photography. He next worked as a draftsman for the Commission of Sewers and Water Supply that had an office in William St, Melbourne. He photographed

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