Couzens Bay
| Couzens Bay | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf , Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 80 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ S , 160 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Couzens Bay is an ice-filled, fjord-like , approximately 15 km long bay in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It lies on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Senia Point and Cape Goldschmidt on the Shackleton Coast .
Participants in a campaign carried out from 1960 to 1961 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named them after Lieutenant Thomas Couzens (1931-1959) of the Royal New Zealand Air Force who fell into a crevasse at Cape Selborne on November 19 1959 died.
Web links
- Couzens Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Couzens Bay on geographic.org (English)