Karelin Bay
| Karelin Bay | ||
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| Waters | Davissee | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ S , 85 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.5 | |
The Karelin Bay ( Russian Бухта Карелина Buchta Karelina ) is a bay-like depression in the northern part of the West Ice Shelf off the coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . Leskov Island is immediately southeast of this bay.
Participants in a Soviet Antarctic expedition mapped it in 1956. They named it after the Soviet meteorologist Dmitri Borisowitsch Karelin (1913–1953), a pioneer of sea ice research and the development of predictions for its expansion. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names translated the Russian designation into English in 1971.
Web links
- Karelin Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Karelin Bay on geographic.org (English)