Quilty Bay
| Quilty Bay | ||
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| Waters | Prydz Bay | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 24 '14 " S , 76 ° 13' 25" O | |
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The Quilty Bay is a side bay of Prydz Bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . It lies between the west of the Stinear Peninsula in the Larsemann Hills area .
The Antarctic Names Committee of Australia named it in 1988. It is named after the Australian geologist Patrick G. Quilty (1939-2018), who worked with scientists from the University of Wisconsin from 1965 to 1966 in Ellsworthland and from 1980 to 1999 as the chief scientist of the Australian Antarctic Division acted.
Web links
- Quilty Bay in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)
- Map of the ASMA-6 "Larsemann Hills" Special Administrative Region (PDF) at the Australian Antarctic Data Center (description)