Murphy Bay
| Murphy Bay | ||
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| Waters | Lake D'Urville | |
| Land mass | George V Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 42 ′ S , 146 ° 19 ′ E | |
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| width | 11 km | |
The Murphy Bay is an 11 km wide and icy bay on the East Antarctic Georg V. Coast . It is located between Penguin Point and Cape Bage .
It was discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson . Mawson named the bay after Herbert Dyce Murphy (1879–1971), dog sitter and camp manager on this expedition.
Web links
- Murphy Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Murphy Bay on geographic.org (English)