Bancroft Bay
| Bancroft Bay | ||
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 33 '58 " S , 61 ° 51' 36" W | |
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| Tributaries | Bayly glacier | |
The Bancroft Bay is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located east of Charlotte Bay on the west side of the Reclus Peninsula and is a side bay of Wilhelmina Bay .
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery carried out an initial mapping of the bay . A new mapping was carried out by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey based on aerial photographs of the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (1955–1957). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it after Anthony David Bancroft (* 1927), head geodesist on the latter expedition.
Web links
- Bancroft Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bancroft Bay on geographic.org (English)