Magnet Bay
| Magnet Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 22 ′ S , 56 ° 20 ′ E | |
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| width | 11 km | |
| depth | 3 km | |
| Islands | Were considered | |
The magnetic Bay is a shallow, 11 km wide and 3 km long bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is 14 km west of Cape Davis on the northwest side of the Edward VIII Plateau .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929–1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson originally mapped it as a larger bay, which supposedly extends from Cape Davis to Cape Borley . It is named after the Schnau Magnet , on which the British seal hunter and explorer Peter Kemp sighted land not far from this bay in 1833. Later expeditions, especially the Lars Christensen expedition in 1936/37 , revealed that the bay expanded far less.
Web links
- Magnet Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Magnet Bay on geographic.org