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Wilhelmina Bay
Wilhelmina Bay is a bay on the Danco Coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula, about 15 miles wide, known for humpback whales feeding on krill each autumn.
Wright Inlet
Wright Inlet, also called Wright, ensenada, is an ice-filled inlet on the Lassiter Coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Wheeler and Cape Little, photographed in 1940 and subject to episodic ice-tongue loss.
Yana Bay
Yana Bay (Янский залив), a gulf of the Laptev Sea in the Sakha Republic, Russia, receives the 872 km Yana River and its ~10,200 km² delta; ice-covered about nine months a year, with thermal-abrasional permafrost coasts.
Yenisey Gulf (Енисейский залив)
The Yenisey Gulf (Енисейский залив) is the long estuary through which the Yenisey River, the Arctic's largest freshwater source, enters the Kara Sea in northern Siberia.
Zubov Bay
Zubov Bay (Spanish: Zubov, bahía; Chilean: Bahía Marcial Mora) is a bay on the east coast of Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, Antarctica, at 65°42'S 65°52'W, named in 1959 after Soviet sea-ice scientist N.N. Zubov.