Penney Bay
| Penney Bay | ||
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| Waters | Vincennes Bay | |
| Land mass | Wilkesland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 26 ′ 0 ″ S , 110 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Islands | Austral Island , Birkenhauer Island , Boffa Island , Bosner Island , Bousquet Island , Cloyd Island , Ford Island , Herring Island , Spano Island , Teigan Island , Wilson Island | |
| Tributaries | Peterson Glacier | |
 Map of the southern Windmill Islands with Penney Bay (right) |
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The Penney Bay is a great addition to Bay of Vincennes Bay on Budd Coast of the East Antarctic Wilke country . It extends from the Robinson Ridge Peninsula to the Browning Peninsula on the east flank of the Windmill Islands .
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 the American biologist Richard Lee Penney (1935-1993), who was active between 1959 and 1960 on the Wilkes station .
Web links
- Penney Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Penney Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Map of the Windmill Islands and the surrounding area (PDF, March 2009) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)