Bellafronto Bight
| Bellafronto Bight | ||
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| Waters | McMurdo Sound , Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 78 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ S , 165 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 10 km | |
The Bellafronto Bight is a bay on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies northwest of the foot of Mount Discovery on the west side of the Brown Peninsula and extends for 10 km from Hahn Island to Swyers Point .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named her in 1999 after Lieutenant Robert L. Bellafronto (* 1946) of the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy , who was responsible for public relations at McMurdo Station as part of Operation Deep Freeze in 1978 and 1979.
Web links
- Bellafronto Bight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bellafronto Bight on geographic.org (English)