Name details
Shirokaya Bay
Shirokaya Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Shirokaya Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
Origin
This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
- Shirokaja, buhta (Russia)
Narrative
A wide bay, just east of Weddell Arm, on the northern side of Broad Peninsula, Vestfold Hills. Photographed by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47), the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1956 and ANARE in 1957 and 1958.
Named For
Named Bukhta Shirokaya (Wide Bay) by the Soviet Expedition.
Location
Images
©Henk Brolsma 2003
- Catalogue id
- IA16546
- Caption
- View looking south east. Shirokaya Bay is the ice covered bay in the bottom right of the photo.
- Photographer
- Brolsma, Henk
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