Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
Terra Nova Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Terra Nova 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:
A large bay, often ice free, about 55 miles long, lying between Cape Washington and Drygalski Ice Tongue, along the east coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the NAE, 1901-04, and named by them for the Terra Nova, one of the relief ships of this expedition.
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