Cave Bay
| Cave Bay | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 2 '14 " S , 73 ° 22' 8" E | |
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| width | 500 m | |
| Islands | Oriental Island | |
The Cave Bay ( English for cave bay ) is a 500 m wide bay on the west coast of Heard Island between West Bay and South West Bay . The bay was formed as a result of the erosion of an extinct volcanic crater , the northern flank of which is formed by Mount Andrée .
The bay appears for the first time on maps of American seal hunters from the period between 1860 and 1870. A detailed mapping was carried out in 1929 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . The descriptive naming goes back to this research trip.
Web links
- Cave Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cave Bay on geographic.org (English)