Avalanche Bay
| Avalanche Bay | ||
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| Waters | McMurdo Sound , Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The Avalanche Bay (English for Avalanche Bay ) is a 1.5 km wide bay on the east coast of the Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located immediately southeast of Discovery Bluff in Granite Harbor .
The bay was mapped by participants in the British Terra Nova expedition (1910–1913) of the polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . They named the bay after the avalanches they encountered on a sledge excursion to Granite Harbor.
Web links
- Avalanche Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Avalanche Bay on geographic.org (English)