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)
Wise Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Wise 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 small bay on the Ross Ice Shelf lying 12 miles east of Mt Reid and 10 miles north west of Cape Maude. Named by the NZGSAE, 1959-60, for KC Wise, who was a member of the expedition and who wintered over in 1959.
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