Mundraga Bay
| Mundraga Bay Rott Inlet |
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 30 ′ S , 59 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| width | 28.6 km | |
| depth | 23 km | |
| Tributaries | Borjana Glacier , Darwari Glacier , Desudawa Glacier | |
The Mundraga Bay (English, Bulgarian залив Мундрага saliw Mundraga ; in the UK Rott Inlet ) is a 23 km long and 28.6 km wide bay at the Nordenskjöld Coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It is east of Fothergill Point and west of Cape Sobral .
The Bulgarian Commission for Antarctic Geographical Names named it in 2011 after a medieval fortress in northeastern Bulgaria . In contrast, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2012 after the Austrian glaciologist Helmut Rott from the University of Innsbruck , who had dealt with the breakup of the Larsen Ice Shelf .
Web links
- Mundraga Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Rott Inlet in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English). Retrieved March 15, 2020.