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Mikkelsen Bay
Mikkelsen Bay, Antarctica; also Zaliv Mikkel'sen, Bahía Mikkelsen. A bay 15 mi wide between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux, Fallières Coast, Graham Land, named for Danish Arctic explorer Ejnar Mikkelsen, distinct from Mikkelsen Harbour.
Mill Inlet
Mill Inlet: ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, at 67°00'S 064°20'W, receding 8 mi NW between Cape Robinson and Monnier Point; its glaciers feed the Larsen Ice Shelf.
Mobiloil Inlet
Mobiloil Inlet, formerly Mobiloil Bay, is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, named by Hubert Wilkins in 1928 after a Vacuum Oil Company lubricant; its head holds the Mercator Ice Piedmont.
Nantucket Inlet
Nantucket Inlet, Antarctica (Nantucket, ensenada): ice-filled Weddell Sea inlet on Palmer Land's east coast, 6 by 13 miles, between Bowman and Smith Peninsulas, fed by Johnston Glacier.
New Bedford Inlet
New Bedford Inlet is a large ice-filled embayment between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS air photography in December 1940 and named after New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Olenyok Gulf
Olenyok Gulf (Оленёкский залив), a shallow gulf of the Laptev Sea in Yakutia, Russia, west of the Lena Delta; 65 km long, about 130 km wide, up to 15 m deep, ice-covered from mid-October to June.
Porpoise Bay
Porpoise Bay names several bays: one at the head of Sechelt Inlet, British Columbia (named 1860 by Captain Richards), a 170-km-wide embayment in Wilkes Land, Antarctica (named for the brig Porpoise), and a Catlins beach bay in New Zealand.
Primero de Mayo Bay
Primero de Mayo Bay (bahía Primero de Mayo; Fumarole Bay, Bahía Septiembre) is a bay on the SW side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, named by Argentina's 1942-43 expedition after the ship 1 de Mayo, with active beach fumaroles.
Revelle Inlet
Revelle Inlet, also Revelle Bay or Revelle, Ensenada, is an ice-filled inlet on the Wilkins Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at about 68°40'S 63°26'W, bounded by Cape Keeler and feeding flow units of the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf embayments of the Weddell margin
The Riiser-Larsen Ice Shelf embayments of the Weddell margin are coastal indentations along Antarctica's Weddell Sea, notably Vahsel Bay, charted in 1912, and the Lassiter Coast.
Rockpepper Bay
Rockpepper Bay (Ensenada Güemes) is a bay at 63°08'S, 55°45'W on the northern coast of Joinville Island, Antarctic Peninsula, named for its many off-shore rocks and islets; variant name Elsie Bay.
Röhss Bay
Röhss Bay is a bay 11 nautical miles wide on the southwest side of James Ross Island, Antarctica, between Cape Broms and Cape Obelisk, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04.
Scoresby Sound
Scoresby Sound (Kangertittivaq, Scoresby Sund), East Greenland's vast fjord system: world's largest, ~350 km long, 13,700 km², named by William Scoresby Jr. in 1822, with Ittoqqortoormiit its only town.
Seligman Inlet
Seligman Inlet is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, opening into the Larsen Ice Shelf. Its 972 km² catchment basin drains glaciers from the peninsula's mountain ridge.
Sherman Basin
Sherman Basin names two features: a bay in the Kitikmeot Sea, Nunavut, Canada (67°49'N 97°35'W), an ecologically rich Arctic bay studied by DFO and Kristina Brown, and a small Paleozoic foreland basin in northeast Texas.
Smith Inlet (inlet)
Smith Inlet: ice-filled inlet, 15 mi long, between Cape Boggs and Cape Collier on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS in 1940, once mislabeled Stefansson Inlet, named for Rear Admiral Edward H. Smith, USCG.
Solberg Inlet
Solberg Inlet (索爾伯格灣), Antarctic Peninsula inlet, ice-filled, 5-10 nmi wide, receding west 14 nmi between Rock Pile Peaks and Joerg Peninsula on the east coast of Graham Land, near 68.3°S 65.2°W.
South Bay (bay)
South Bay: name of several Antarctic bays, chiefly a large inlet between Hannah Point and Miers Bluff on the south coast of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (62°39′S 60°29′W), known to sealers from 1820, hosting Bulgarian and Spanish bases and a leopard seal aggregation; also a bay at Cape Evans, Ross Island.
Square Bay
Square Bay (bahía Cuadrada) is a bay on the Fallières Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula at 67°50′S 67°00′W, entered past Horseshoe Island from northeast Marguerite Bay, charted by Rymill's BGLE in 1936–37.
Sulzberger Bay
Sulzberger Bay is an Antarctic bay indenting the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the Marie Byrd Land coast, discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1929.
Telefon Bay
Telefon Bay: small bay on the NW side of Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, at 62°56'S 60°40'W. Named Baie du Telefon after the SS Telefon, beached there in winter 1909; charted by Charcot's French expedition.
Trail Inlet
Trail Inlet is an ice-filled inlet at 68°05'S 65°22'W on the Bowman Coast, Graham Land, feeding a flow unit of the Larsen C Ice Shelf; Joerg Peninsula divides it from Solberg Inlet, and its 1,068 km² catchment drains via Daspit Glacier.
Upernavik Archipelago straits and bays
The straits and bays of the Upernavik Archipelago are the channels and inlets separating thousands of islands in northwest Greenland, centered on the deep Upernavik Isfjord.
Uummannaq fjord system bays and inlets
The Uummannaq fjord system bays and inlets, officially Uummannaq Fjord, are the arms of a large fjord complex in Greenland draining the ice sheet into Baffin Bay.
Vahsel Bay
Vahsel Bay (Vahselbucht), a bay about 7 miles wide on the Luitpold Coast, Coats Land, Antarctica, at the east end of the Filchner Ice Shelf; discovered 1912 by Filchner's German expedition and named for Captain Richard Vahsel.
Vincennes Bay
Vincennes Bay is an ice-filled bay on Budd Coast, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, named for the USS Vincennes of the 1840 Wilkes expedition. Its Vanderford Glacier drains part of the Aurora Subglacial Basin, holds about 0.67 m of sea level rise, and receives warm modified Circumpolar Deep Water intrusions.
Violante Inlet
Violante Inlet is an ice-filled inlet, 16 nmi long and 12–15 nmi wide, between Cape Fanning and Cape Herdman on the Black Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS in 1940 and named for Andre L. Violante.
Wager Bay
Wager Bay, Nunavut, a bay on the northwest coast of Hudson Bay, Canada; shores of Ukkusiksalik National Park; site of a 1925 Hudson's Bay Company post and 1742 Middleton exploration.
Whalers Bay
Whalers Bay, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands: caldera bay and Antarctic Treaty HSM 71, site of the Norwegian Hektor whaling station (1912-1931), British Base B, and a geothermal shore visited by over 15,000 tourists yearly.
Whirlwind Inlet
Whirlwind Inlet, an inlet on the Bowman Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, between Cape Northrop and Tent Nunatak; fed by Flint, Demorest, Matthes, and Chamberlin Glaciers; named by Wilkins in 1928 after the Wright Whirlwind engine; a foehn-jet site on Larsen C.