Nilsen Bay
| Nilsen Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 64 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Nilsen Bay is a small bay on the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It is located immediately west of the mouth of the Strahan Glacier and 28 km east-southeast of Cape Daly
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them in February 1931. Mawson named them after Oscar Nilsen (1887-1972), captain of the Norwegian whaling ship Sir James Clark Ross , which had transported coal for the operation of the research vessel RRS Discovery on this research trip . The later inspection of Mawson's notes revealed that he had incorrectly named them Nielsen Bay and positioned them too far to the west.
Web links
- Nilsen Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Nilsen Bay on geographic.org (English)