Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Blunt Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Blunt 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 small bay at the head of Vincennes Bay at the eastern end of Knox Coast, Wilkes Land. Delineated from air photographs taken by USN Operation Highjump (1946-47) and called Blunt Cove by USACAN after S F Blunt, passed midshipman on the sloop Vincennes, one of the ships of the US Exploring Expedition (1838-42) under Lieut. (later Rear Adm. C Wilkes), USN.
S F Blunt, on the sloop
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