🌊 Pankratz Bay

Antarctica · Antarctica · 73.45°S, 126.63°W

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Pankratz Bay is a bay in the western end of Siple Island, off the coast of Marie Byrd Land. The bay is just south of Lovill Bluff and opens on Wrigley Gulf. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from surveys and U.S. Navy aerial photography, 1959–65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Leroy M. Pankratz, United States Antarctic Research Program (USARP) geomagnetician and seismologist at Byrd Station in 1965.

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CountryAntarctica
Continent / regionAntarctica
Coordinates (approx.)73.45°S, 126.63°W · view on map

Pankratz Bay is located in Antarctica, in Antarctica.

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

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