Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Vahsel Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Vahsel Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay (3)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A bay about 7 mi wide in the western part of Luitpold Coast. This bay receives the flow of the Schweitzer Glacier and Lerchenfeld Glacier. Discovered by the GerAE, 1911-12, under Wilhelm Filchner. Upon discovery Filchner named the bay for Capt. Richard Vahsel of the expedition ship Deutschland. He renamed it "Herzog Ernst Bucht" after large portions of the surrounding ice broke away forming a much larger bay. However, later explorers have retained the name Vahsel Bay.
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