Baia Siena
| Baia Siena | ||
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| Waters | Wood Bay | |
| Land mass | Borchgrevink Coast , Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 19 '14 " S , 165 ° 5' 28" O | |
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| width | 2 km | |
The Baia Siena ( Italian ) is a 2 km wide bay on the Borchgrevink coast in East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies 12.5 km west of the summit of Mount Melbourne between the foothills of the Colline Ippolito in the north and Edmonson Point in the south.
Italian scientists named it in 2006 after the city of Siena , from which numerous Italian researchers working in Antarctica come.
Web links
- Siena, Baia in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)