Otkrytaya Bay
| Otkrytaya Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 26 '48 " S , 78 ° 13' 7" O | |
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The Otkrytaya Bay ( English ; Russian Бухта Открытая Buchta Otkrytaja , German 'Open Bay' ) is a bay on the Ingrid Christensen coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth Land . It is located on the north side of the Langnes Peninsula in the Vestfoldberg area .
It was discovered and photographed from the air during the Norwegian Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Additional aerial photographs were taken during the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947), by scientists on a Soviet Antarctic expedition in 1956, which they also named, and during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1957 and 1958. The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia transferred the Russian name in 1973 in a transcribed partial translation into English.
Web links
- Otkrytaya Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)