Table Bay (Antarctica)
| Table Bay | ||
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 84 ° 47 ′ S , 163 ° 30 ′ E | |
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| drainage | Beardmore Glacier | |
The Table Bay is a small glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the southern section of the Queen Alexandra chain, it flows between Mount Augusta and Mount Holloway in an easterly direction to the Beardmore Glacier , which it reaches at Lizard Point .
The south pole group of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it after its bay-shaped appearance. Despite the misleading name for a glacier, it has been preserved.
Web links
- Table Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Table Bay on geographic.org (English)