Pine Island Bay
| Pine Island Bay | ||
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 Pine Island Glacier Mouth into Pine Island Bay (November 2011) |
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| Waters | Amundsen lake | |
| Land mass | Marie Byrd Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 74 ° 50 ′ S , 102 ° 40 ′ W | |
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| width | 48 km | |
| depth | 64 km | |
| Tributaries | Lucchitta Glacier , Pine Island Glacier | |
The Pine Iceland Bay is a 48 km wide and about 64 km long bay on the Walgreen Coast of the East Antarctic Marie Byrd lands . The Pine Island Glacier flows into this bay.
Aerial photos of the US American Operation Highjump (1946–1947) from 1946 were used in 1955 by the US cartographer Gardner "Gard" Dean Blodgett (* 1925) to map the bay. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named the bay after the USS Pine Island , an aircraft mother ship and flagship of the Eastern Units in Operation Highjump. The USS Pine Island is named after the Pine Island Strait in Lee County in the US state of Florida.
Web links
- Pine Iceland Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Pine Island Bay on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Katharina Hochmuth: Why is Pine Island Bay actually called Pine Island Bay? In: Helmholtz Blogs - Alfred Wegener Institute: Polarstern Blog. February 27, 2017. Retrieved June 28, 2018 .