Mechanics Bay
| Mechanics Bay | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Land mass | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ S , 73 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The Mechanics Bay is a 1.5 km wide bay on the north coast of the island Heard . It is located immediately east of Saddle Point .
The name of the bay goes back to American seal hunters. Captain Erasmus Darwin Rogers (1817-1906) probably named the bay after the schooner Mechanics , the Corinthian's escort ship , with which he first called the island in March 1855.
Web links
- Mechanics Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mechanics Bay on geographic.org (English)