Jordanoff Bay
| Jordanoff Bay | ||
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| Waters | Orléans Street | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 50 ′ 20 ″ S , 59 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 5 km | |
| depth | 4.9 km | |
The Jordanoff Bay (English, Bulgarian Йорданов залив Jordanow saliw ) is a 4.9 km long and 5 km wide bay on the Davis Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Wennersgaard Point and Tarakchiev Point .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named them in 2009 after the Bulgarian-US aviation pioneer Assen Jordanoff (1896-1967), who had built the first Bulgarian aircraft in 1915.
Web links
- Jordanoff Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)