Taynaya Bay
| Taynaya Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean | |
| Land mass | Princess Elisabeth Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 68 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ S , 78 ° 16 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Taynaya Bay ( Russian Бухта Тайная Buchta Tainaja , German , Mystery Bay ' ) is, except for a narrow passage on the north side, completely enclosed bay on the Ingrid Christensen Coast of the East Antarctic Princess Elisabeth country . In the Vestfold Mountains it is located in the northern part of the Langnes Peninsula .
Air photos were taken at the Norwegian Lars Christensen Expedition 1936-37 . Subsequently, it appeared on maps as a lake . The American geographer John Hobbie Roscoe (1919-2007) identified it as a bay in 1952 based on aerial photographs of Operation Highjump (1946-1947). Further aerial photographs were taken between 1954 and 1958 during the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and in 1956 by scientists of a Soviet Antarctic expedition , who also named it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names transferred the Russian designation in 1970 in a partial translation into English.
Web links
- Taynaya Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Taynaya Bay on geographic.org (English)