Farr Bay
| Farr Bay | ||
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| Waters | Davissee | |
| Land mass | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 35 ' S , 94 ° 23' E | |
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| width | 11 km | |
The Farr Bay is an 11 km wide bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It is located immediately east of the Helen Glacier .
The team from the West Base on the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in November 1912. Mawson initially named them as Depot Bay . He later changed the name. The new namesake is Clinton Coleridge Farr (1866–1943), professor of physics at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and member of the expedition committee.
Web links
- Farr Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Farr Bay on geographic.org (English)