Mikkelsen Bay (Antarctica)

Mikkelsen Bay
	Map of the Antarctic Peninsula, with Mikkelsen Bay within Marguerite Bay
Waters	Marguerite Bay
Land mass	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Geographical location	68 ° 45 ′ S , 67 ° 8 ′ W Coordinates: 68 ° 45 ′ S , 67 ° 8 ′ W
width	approx. 25 km
depth	approx. 16 km
Islands	Keyhole Island , Query Island
Tributaries	Clarke Glacier , Dee Piedmont Glacier

The Mikkelsen Bay is a bay with an area of 16 x 25 km at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the Bertrand-Piedmont-Glacier and Cape Berteaux .

First sighted, but not recognized as a bay, it was in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908-1910) under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Charcot . Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934-1934) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill carried out a first survey in 1936. This was followed by a further measurement by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey between 1948 and 1949. The bay is named after the Danish polar explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880–1971).

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