Doggers Bay
| Doggers Bay | ||
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| Waters | Amery Ice Shelf , Southern Ocean | |
| Land mass | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 7 ′ S , 69 ° 9 ′ E | |
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| width | 8 kilometers | |
| depth | 26 km | |
| Islands | Holm Podlëdnyj Kupol | |
The Dogger Bay is an icy, 26 km long and 8 km wide bay at the Lars Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It lies between the Foley Promontory and the Landon Promontory on the west side of the Amery Ice Shelf .
Aerial photos from 1956 of a campaign by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE) were used to map them. An ANARE team led by the glaciologist Ian Hamilton Landon-Smith (* 1937) visited them with dog sleds in November 1962. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) named them after the English slang term Doggers for a dog sled team.
Web links
- Doggers Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Doggers Bay on geographic.org (English)