Lanchester Bay
| Lanchester Bay | ||
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| Waters | Orléans Street | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 53 ′ S , 60 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| width | 11 km | |
| Tributaries | Kassabowa Glacier , Temple Glacier | |
The Lanchester Bay is approximately 11 km wide bay on the Davis Coast of Graham lands in the northwest of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is east of Havilland Point .
Aerial photos by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. from 1955 to 1957 were used by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey for mapping. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the bay in 1960 after the British aeronautical engineer Frederick W. Lanchester (1886-1948), who laid the foundations of the theory for modern fluid mechanics .
Web links
- Lanchester Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Lanchester Bay on geographic.org (English)