Ledda Bay
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 Map of Grant Island (center right) with Ledda Bay |
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| Waters | Southern ocean | |
| Land mass | Grant Island | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ S , 131 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Ledda Bay is a shallow and 19 km wide bay on the north side of Grant Iceland before the Hobbs Coast of the West Antarctic Marie Byrd lands .
The bay was discovered and first mapped on February 4, 1962 by the crew of the icebreaker USS Glacier . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1966 after Raymond J. Ledda Jr. (1930-2002), who had been a quartermaster of the crew of the USS Glacier .
Web links
- Ledda Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ledda Bay on geographic.org (English)