Name details

Krichak Bay

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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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 53

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:

Narrative

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.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
68° 33' 32.0" S
-68.55889°
Accurate to 150m
Longitude:
151° 27' 08.0" E
151.45222°
Accurate to 150m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Satellite Image
Source Name:
Landsat Image Mosaic Antarctica (LIMA)
Source Identifier:
E113_CIR_432_1X
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
USGS
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
USGS
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
19-Jun-1964

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