Tripp Bay
| Tripp Bay | ||
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| Waters | Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 76 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 162 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| Islands | Tripp Island | |
| Tributaries | Albrecht Penck Glacier , Tripp Ice Tongue | |
The Tripp Bay is a bay on the Scott Coast of the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It was created by the receding ice between the Oates-Piedmont glacier and the Evans-Piedmont glacier .
They discovered participants in the Nimrod expedition (1907-1909) led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton . The bay is named after the New Zealander Leonard Owen Howard Tripp (1862–1957), who assisted the expedition.
See also
Web links
- Tripp Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tripp Bay on geographic.org (English)
- Tripp Bay. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts: Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 307 (English)