Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Lewis Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Lewis Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay (3)
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Bay indenting the north coast of Ross Island between Mount Bird and Cape Tennyson. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME14
Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain Price Lewis, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of the USS Staten Island during U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1959, and who in U.S. Navy (USN) Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz) 1963 and 1964 was assistant chief of staff and ship group commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica.
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