Mountain Bay
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 Topographic map of the Adare Peninsula with Robertson Bay to the west and its subsidiary bay Berg Bay |
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| Waters | Robertson Bay , Somow Lake | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 71 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 169 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Tributaries | Haffner Glacier | |
The Mountain Bay is a small bay on the Pennell Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It is located between Birthday Point and Islands Point on the west side of Robertson Bay .
The northern group led by the British polar explorer Victor Campbell on the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) mapped and named this bay in 1911. It is named after the numerous icebergs in the bay , which were caused by the calving of the Haffner- Glaciers are formed.
Web links
- Mountain Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Berg Bay on geographic.org (English)