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Spooner Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Spooner 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 bay on the coast of Enderby Land, just west of Tange Promontory. Plotted from air photographs taken from ANARE aircraft in 1956. Visited by the ANARE Expedition on the MV Thala Dan led by D.F. Styles in February 1961. Named after Senator W.H. Spooner, Australian Minister for National Development, 1951-64.
Senator W.H. Spooner, Australian Minister for National Development, 1951-64
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