Wrigley Golf

Wrigley Golf
Waters	Southern ocean
Land mass	Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica
Geographical location	74 ° 0 ′ S , 129 ° 0 ′ W Coordinates: 74 ° 0 ′ S , 129 ° 0 ′ W
width	185 km

The Wrigleygolf ( English Wrigley Gulf ) is an approximately 185 km wide and approximately right-angled indentation of the Getz Ice Shelf off the Hobbs coast of the west Antarctic Marie-Byrd-Land . It lies between Grant Island in the west and Cape Dart on Siple Island in the east. At its head end is the Dean Island , which is almost completely enclosed by the ice shelf .

Participants in the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) led by the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd discovered them in December 1940. The name, recognized by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names since 1947, was named after the entrepreneur Philip Knight Wrigley (1894–1977 ) from Chicago , CEO of the Wrigley Company , owner of the Chicago Cubs and sponsor of the expedition.

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