Mikkelsen Bay (Alaska)
| Mikkelsen Bay | ||
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| Waters | Beaufort Sea | |
| Land mass | Alaska | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 11 ′ N , 147 ° 4 ′ W | |
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| width | 15 km | |
| depth | 4.5 km | |
The Mikkelsen Bay is a bay with an area of 15 x 4.5 km on the north coast of the US state of Alaska between the Tigvariak Island in the west and Bullen Point in the east. It was named in 1909 by Ernest de Koven Leffingwell (1875–1971) after the Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen , his partner in the Anglo-American Polar Expedition 1906–1908 .
Web links
- Mikkelsen Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mikkelsen Bay on mapcarta.com (English)