West Bay (Graham Land)
| West Bay | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay | |
| Land mass | Graham land | |
| Geographical location | 69 ° 21 '36 " S , 68 ° 23' 25" W | |
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| Tributaries | Sirocco glacier | |
The West Bay is a bay on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between the Brindle Cliffs and Mount Guernsey .
It was mapped in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out measurements between 1948 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1966 by the United States Navy . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named them in 1977 after Captain William Edwin West of the United States Coast Guard , commander of USCGC Glacier in Operation Deep Freeze in 1973 and 1974.
Web links
- West Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- West Bay on geographic.org (English)