Wheeler Bay
| Wheeler Bay | ||
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| Waters | Cooperation lake | |
| Land mass | Kempland , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 18 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 6 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| width | 5 km | |
| Islands | Brødrene | |
The Wheeler Bay is a 5-km wide bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Kemplands . It is located 3 km northwest of Magnet Bay .
Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . They named it Brørvika (Norwegian for brother's bay ) and named the rocky islands in their driveway as Brødrene (Norwegian for brothers ). After a survey between 1956 and 1957 as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions , the bay was renamed. The new namesake is Graeme Trevor Wheeler (* 1928), weather observer at Mawson Station in 1957.
Web links
- Wheeler Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wheeler Bay on geographic.org (English)