Mstislav Keldysch glacier bay
Mstislav Keldysch glacier bay | ||
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Waters | Darwin glacier | |
Land mass | Transantarctic Mountains in the Ross Dependency | |
Geographical location | 79 ° 56'30 " S , 159 ° 49'26" E | |
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Tributaries | Darwin glacier | |
Topographic map with the as yet unnamed Mstislaw-Keldysch glacier bay on the northern edge of the Gawn-Piedmont glacier (bottom center) |
The Mstislav Keldysch Glacier Bay ( Russian Ледник Бухта Мстислава Келдыша Lednik Buchta Mstislawa Keldysha ) is an ice bay on the Hillary coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It is located southwest of MacDonald Point on the northern edge of the Gawn Piedmont Glacier and is occupied by the southern flank of the mouth of the Darwin Glacier in the Ross Ice Shelf .
The bay is named after the Soviet mathematician Mstislav Vsevolodowitsch Keldysch (1911–1978), President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR from 1961 to 1975.
Web links
- Mstislava Keldysha, lednik buhta in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)