Oom Bay
| Oom Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 60 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Islands | Kollskjer , Oom Island | |
The Oom Bay is a well-defined and 3 km wide bay on the coast Mawson of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Lands . It lies between Cape Bruce and Campbell Head .
Participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered the bay in February 1931. Mawson named it after Lieutenant Karl Erik Oom (1904-1972), the cartographer of this research trip .
Web links
- Oom Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Oom Bay on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ JS Compton: Karl Erik Oom . In: Australian Dictionary of Biography (accessed September 30, 2016).