Browns Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Browns Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Cape Mabel and Cape Geddes, N coast of Laurie Island, was mapped by SNAE in November 1903 and named Brown's Bay after Robert Neal Rudmose Brown (1879-1957), naturalist on the expedition; naturalist and surveyor on expeditions to Svalbard between 1914 and 1925; Professor of Geography, Sheffield University, 1931-45 (Bruce and others, chart, 1903a; Bruce, 1905b, map facing p.322). Browns Bay (Bruce and others, chart, [1903b] ; BA chart 1775, 1938; APC, 1955, p.6). Brown Bay (BA, 1930, p.50; chart 1775, 17.viii.1934). Brown Bukt (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). Bahïa Brown (Argentina. IGM map 104, 1933). Bahïa Brown's (Argentina. MM, 1945, p.278). Bahïa Browns (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.189; Pierrou, 1970, p.218).
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