Griffiths Bay
| Griffiths Bay | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 22 '52 " S , 58 ° 50' 18" W | |
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| width | 7 km | |
| depth | 10 km | |
The Griffiths Bay is a 10-km long and 7 km wide bay at the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located on the north bank of the Longing Peninsula .
The bay was created in 1995 when the Prince Gustav Ice Shelf broke up . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2008 after the British geophysicist Donald Harrison Griffiths (1919-2007) from the University of Birmingham , a pioneer of marine geophysics in Antarctica and Africa .
literature
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 664
Web links
- Griffiths Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)