Prydz Bay

Prydz Bay
Waters	Cooperation Lake ( Southern Ocean )
Land mass	East Antarctica
Geographical location	69 ° 0 ′ S , 75 ° 0 ′ E Coordinates: 69 ° 0 ′ S , 75 ° 0 ′ E
width	approx. 170 km
depth	> 150 km
Islands	Akerman Island , Anchorage Island , Barratt Island , Berrnesholmen , Betts Island , Bluff Island , Bølingen , Ostrova Bol'shie Skalistye , Boyd Island , Breadloaf Island , Butler Island , Cleft Island , Cook Island , Dålkøy , Dodd Island , Donskiye Islands , Easther Island , Fisher Island , Flutter Island , Gjotøy , Gròvøya , Hans Rock , Harley Island , Hill Island , Hovden , Hovdøya , Hovdøyane , Jesson Island , Ostrov Kamennyj , Kazak Island , Keuken Rock , Kista Rock , Knuckey Island , Lake Island , Lichen Island , Lovering Island , Lucas Island , Lugg Island , Ostrova Malye Skalistye , McLeod Island , Magnetic Island , Manning Island , McCallie Rocks , McLeod Island , Muløy , Nyreholmane , O'Gorman Rocks , Oldroyd Island , Osmar Island , Plogøy , Rauer Islands , Richardson Iceland , Sandercock Island , Skipsholmen , Skòrøy , Slettholmane Solomon Island , Sørholmane , Søstrene , Spissøya , Stedøy , Steinane , Striped Island , Storøy , Svennerøyane , Trigwell Island , Turner Island , T win Island , Utskjera , Vågøy , Vågøykalvane , Waterhouse Island , Zashchitnyye Islands
Tributaries	Dålk Glacier , Flatnes , Hovde Glacier , Lambert Glacier , Publications Ice Shelf , Shennong Glacier , Sørsdal Glacier

The Prydz Bay ( Norwegian Olaf Prydz Bukt , also known as Olaf-Prydz-Fjord ) is a 150 km deep bay between the Lars-Christensen and the Ingrid-Christensen coast in East Antarctica . Much of it is occupied by the Amery Ice Shelf . The Lambert Glacier , the largest glacier in the world, flows into its head end . The Russian Progress station is located in the Larsemann Hills on the shore of the bay.

Norwegian whalers and participants in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931), led by the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson, discovered parts of the bay between January and February 1931. In February 1935 she was explored by the Norwegian whaler captain Klarius Mikkelsen with the Thorshavn . The first aerial photos were taken during the Norwegian Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . These were used by Norwegian cartographers for their first mapping in 1946. The bay is named after Olaf Petter Blankenborg Prydz (1882–1951), the head of Hvalfangernes Assuranceforening (whaling insurance) in Sandefjord, Norway .

literature

John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 2, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 1257 (English)