Buckley Bay
| Buckley Bay | ||
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| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Land mass | George V Coast , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 22 ′ 0 ″ S , 148 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Buckley Bay is a bay on the East Antarctic Georg V. Coast . It lies between the east side of the sea-protruding tongue of the Ninnis Glacier and the mainland mass.
The bay was discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . This named it after the New Zealand sheep farmer George Alexander McLean Buckley (1866-1937), a sponsor of the research trip, who had previously appeared as a sponsor for the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909) of the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton .
Web links
- Buckley Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Buckley Bay on geographic.org (English)