Turks Head Bay
| Turks Head Bay | ||
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 Map section of Ross Island with Turks Head Bay (above) |
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| Waters | Erebus Bay | |
| Land mass | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 44 ′ 0 ″ S , 166 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Turks Head Bay ( English for Turkish main bay ) is a small bay on the west side of the Antarctic Ross Island . It lies between Tryggve Point and Turks Head .
Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910–1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott named it based on the descriptive name of the headland of the same name.
Web links
- Turks Head Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Turks Head Bay on geographic.org (English)