Wright Bay
| Wright Bay | ||
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| Waters | Mawson Lake | |
| Land mass | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
| Geographical location | 66 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ S , 93 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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The Wright Bay is a small bay on the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie-country . It lies between the coastline and the west side of the tongue of the Helen Glacier .
Participants in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them. Mawson named it after the Canadian physicist Charles Seymour Wright (1887-1975), participant in the Terra Nova Expedition (1911-1913) of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott .
Web links
- Wright Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wright Bay on geographic.org (English)