Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Victor Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Victor Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay (3)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Bay about 16 mi wide and 7 mi long, indenting the coast between Pourquoi Pas Point and Mathieu Rock. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of icebergs breaking away from the high tongue of Commandant Charcot Glacier. Delineated from aerial photographs taken by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47, and named by the US-ACAN for Paul-Emile Victor, Director of the Expeditions Polaires Francaises, who organized French expeditions to Greenland in 1948-51 and Antarctica in 1948-53 and 1955-56.
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