Mstislav Keldysch glacier bay

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Mstislav Keldysch glacier bay
Waters Darwin glacier
Land mass Transantarctic Mountains in the Ross Dependency
Geographical location 79 ° 56'30 "  S , 159 ° 49'26"  E Coordinates: 79 ° 56'30 "  S , 159 ° 49'26"  O
Mstislaw Keldysch Glacier Bay (Antarctica)
Mstislav Keldysch glacier bay
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)

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.

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