🌊 McDonald Bay

Antarctica · Antarctica · 66.60°S, 92.73°E

Advertisement

McDonald Bay is an open bay in the Davis Sea, 10 nautical miles (19 km) wide at its entrance between Adams Island and the Haswell Islands, lying immediately west of Mabus Point on the coast of Antarctica. It was charted by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, 1911–14, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Commander Edwin A. McDonald, U.S. Navy, Commander of the USS Burton Island, flagship of the two icebreakers which supported the U.S. Navy Operation Windmill parties which established astronomical stations along Wilhelm II, Queen Mary, Knox and Budd Coasts during the 1947–48 summer season.

Read the full article on Wikipedia →

Quick facts

CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)66.60°S, 92.73°E · view on map

McDonald Bay is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

More bays in Antarctica

Adams Fjord · Adelaide Anchorage · Adélie Cove · Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands) · Ainsworth Bay, Antarctica · Aitken Cove · Akkuratnaya Cove · Alasheyev Bight · Allison Bay · Amanda Bay.

Coordinates approximate. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.

Advertisement
Advertisement