Neupokoyev Bight
| Neupokoyev Bight | ||
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| Waters | Lazarev lake | |
| Land mass | Princess Martha Coast , Queen Maud Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 70 ° 5 ′ S , 4 ° 45 ′ E | |
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| width | 50 km | |
The Neupokoyev Bight ( Russian Залив Неупокоева Saliw Neupokoyewa ) is a 50 km wide bay in the ice shelf off the Princess Martha coast of the East Antarctic Queen Maud Land . It is located around 30 km northeast of Tsiolkovsky Island .
Norwegian cartographers mapped them using aerial photographs taken between 1958 and 1959 during the Third Norwegian Antarctic Expedition (1956–1960). Soviet scientists mapped it again in 1961 and named it after the Russian hydrograph Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Neupokojew (1884-1924), who worked in the Arctic Ocean in the 1920s . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian name to English in 1970.
Web links
- Neupokoyev Bight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Neupokoyev Bight on geographic.org (English)