Zubov Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Zubov 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:
E coast of Renaud Island, Biscoe Islands, N of Jurva Point, was photographed from the air by AAE (Argentina. MM chart 130, 1957) and by FIDASE in 1956; in association with the names of sea-ice specialists grouped in this area, named after Nikolay Nikolayevich Zubov (1885-1960), Soviet oceanographer and authority on floating ice; Professor of Oceanology, Moscow University, and author of L'dy Arktiki [Ice of the Arctic] (Moscow, 1945) (APC, 1959a, p.12; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Bahi a Marcial Mora, so called by CAE after Marcial Mora, Chilean Foreign Minister who in 1940, under President P. Aguirre Cerda (Aguirre Passage, q.v.), set the limits of Territorio Chileno Anta rtico (q.v.) (Chile. DNH chart 1502, 1962; IHA, 1974, p.193).
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