Krichak Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Krichak Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
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:
A bay in the western part of the Cook Ice Shelf, George V Land. Discovered and named by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition, 1957-58, in the Ob I. O.G. Krichak headed Aerological and Meteorological Divisions of the 2nd and 5th Soviet Antarctic Expeditions. Dr. Krichak and 7 other scientists perished in a fire in the building of the Aerological and Meteorological Division in Mirny Observatory on August 3 1960. Concerning the Bay named in memory of my father - According to "Russian and soviet geography names on maps of Antarctica" by L. I. Dubrovin and M. A. Preobrajenskaya, Leningrad, Hydrometeorology Press, Ed. P. K. Senko,1976. " .... Krichak Bay (68º 28 min S, 151º16 min E) located on the northern shore of Victoria Land (King George V Shore). Discovered and mapped by Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958. Later named in honor of perished in Antarctica soviet meteorologist Dr. Oscar Grigorjevich Krichak (1911-1960)". See also - Krichak Glacier (73º 02 min S, 68º 29 min E). Information supplied by Prof. Simon Krichak (Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 22 January 2006), son of Dr. Krichak.
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