Stefansson Bay
| Stefansson Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 20 ′ S , 59 ° 8 ′ E | |
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| length | 16 km | |
| Islands | Kjølen , Law Islands , Rund Island , Tverrholmen | |
| Tributaries | Cosgrove Glacier , Mulebreen | |
The Stefansson Bay is a 16 km deep bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is located between Law Promontory and the island of Foldøya .
The Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson named as part of the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE, 1929–1931) such a bay west of Cape Wilkins , which he sighted around February 18, 1931. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations in 1936 and the crew of the Thorshavn on the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 carried out more detailed mapping of the bay . The namesake of the name made by Mawson is the Canadian polar explorer Vilhjálmur Stefánsson (1879–1962).
Web links
- Stefansson Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stefansson Bay on geographic.org (English)