O'Brien Bay
| O'Brien Bay | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Land mass | Wilkesland , Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Islands | Edman Island | |
 Map of the Middle Windmill Islands with O'Brien Bay (top center) |
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The O'Brien Bay is a side bay of Vincennes Bay on Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It lies between the Bailey Peninsula and the Mitchell Peninsula .
It was first mapped using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy in 1947 and 1948 during Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1963 after Clement E. O'Brien (1920-2015) of the US Navy, communications officer in Operation Windmill, who was involved in the establishment of astronomical observation stations on the Windmill Islands in 1948 .
Web links
- O'Brien Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- O'Brien Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands and the surrounding area (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)