Utstikkar Bay
| Utstikkar Bay Utstikkarbukta, Utstikkar Bay, Stibbs Bay |
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ S , 61 ° 28 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 6.5 km | |
| Islands | Kolven , Stanton Group , Stedet | |
The Utstikkar Bay ( Norwegian Utstikkarbukta , in Australia Stibbs Bay, in the USA Utstikkar Bay ) is a 6.5 km wide bay on the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac-Robertson Land . It is located immediately east of the Utstikkar Glacier .
Norwegian cartographers recorded it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They named it based on the name of the glacier of the same name.
Web links
- Utstikkar Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Utstikkar Bay on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stibbs Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica
- ↑ Utstikkar Bay in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, accessed July 12, 2017