Windless Bight
| Maumee Bight | ||
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| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf in the Ross Sea | |
| Land mass | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 28 '43 " S , 166 ° 21' 43" E | |
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The Windless Bight ( German Windless Bay ) is the large bay east of the Hut Point Peninsula in the south of the East Antarctic Ross Island . It is completely occupied by the ice masses of the Ross Ice Shelf .
The bay was given its descriptive name by the three-man team led by the British polar explorer Edward Wilson , who undertook the winter march to Cape Crozier during the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) .
Web links
- Windless Bight in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Windless Bight on geographic.org (English)