Davies Bay
| Davies Bay | ||
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| Waters | Somow lake | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 18 ′ S , 158 ° 34 ′ E | |
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| width | approx. 15 km | |
| Tributaries | McLeod Glacier , Paternostro Glacier | |
The Davies Bay is a bay about 15 km in diameter in the Oates Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It lies between the Drake Head and Cape Kinsey .
She was discovered by Lieutenant Harry Lewin Lee Pennell (1882-1916), a crew member of the Terra Nova during the Antarctic expedition of the same name (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The bay is named after Francis Edward Charles Davies (1885–1952), the Terra Nova ship's carpenter .
Web links
- Davies Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Davies Bay on geographic.org (English)