Bratina lagoon

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Bratina lagoon
Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the unlabeled Bratina lagoon on the northern tip of the Brown Peninsula (top center)

Topographic map (1: 250,000) with the unlabeled Bratina lagoon on the northern tip of the Brown Peninsula (top center)

Waters Ross Sea
Land mass Victoria Land , East Antarctica
Geographical location 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 78 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  S , 165 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Bratina Lagoon (Antarctica)
Bratina lagoon
width 250 m
depth 700 m

The Bratina Lagoon is a tidal , 700 m long and 250 m wide lagoon on the Scott coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . The bay , criss-crossed by sandbanks , ponds and troughs , is located on the northern tip of the Brown Peninsula . In front of it is the island of Bratina Island .

The New Zealand Geographic Board named it on the suggestion of the New Zealand ecologist Clive Howard-Williams based on the name of Bratina Island. The namesake of this island is Joseph H. Bratina (1914-2006), chief aircraft engineer of the VX-6 flight squadron at McMurdo Station from 1958 to 1959, from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1962.

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