Crates Bay
| Crates Bay | ||
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| Waters | Holtedahl Bay | |
| Land mass | Strescher Peninsula , Graham Land , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 9 '20 " S , 65 ° 25' 30" W | |
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| width | 8 kilometers | |
| depth | 6 km | |
| Islands | Conway Island | |
| Tributaries | Splettstoesser glacier | |
The Crates Bay (English; Bulgarian залив Кратес saliw Krates ) is an 8 km wide and 6 km long bay in the northeast of the Strescher Peninsula on the Graham coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . As a side bay of Holtedahl Bay , it lies between Starmen Point in the northwest and a headland that extends from Lens Peak in the southeast. Conway Island is at the center of this bay, created by the retreat of glacier ice in the last three decades of the 20th century .
British scientists mapped them in 1976. The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2013 after the Greek philosopher Krates von Mallos , creator of the four-part worldview named after him.
Web links
- Crates Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English and Spanish)