Newcomb Bay
| Newcomb Bay | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Land mass | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| length | 1.6 km | |
| Islands | Bailey Rocks , Bøving Island , Fitzpatrick Rock , Kilby Island , McMullin Island , Orton Reef | |
 Map of the northern Windmill Islands with Newcomb Bay (below center) |
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The Newcomb Bay is a protected side bay of Vincennes Bay on Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It is located between the Clark Peninsula and the Bailey Peninsula near the Windmill Islands .
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in February 1947 during Operation Highjump . The US oceanographer Willis L. Tressler (1903–1973) surveyed the bay in February 1957 and named it after Lieutenant Robert Carl Newcomb (1926–2008), navigator of the icebreaker USS Glacier .
Web links
- Newcomb Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Newcomb Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands and the surrounding area (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)