Mikkelsen Bay
bay in Antarctica
Mikkelsen Bay (68°43′S 67°10′W) is a bay, 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) wide at its mouth and indenting 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi), entered between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux along the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica.
Location
Mikkelsen Bay is in the east of the larger Marguerite Bay in Graham Land on the Fallières Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.
It is south of Rymill Bay and the Bertrand Ice Piedmont, southwest of the Hadley Upland, west of the Godfrey Upland and north of the Hariot Glacier.
Clarke Glacier flows into the southeast corner of the bay.
Other features of the coast include Moraine Cove, Pavie Ridge, Dee Ice Piedmont, Doggo Defile, Baudin Peaks and Cape Berteaux.
Islands in the bay, or to the west of the bay, include, from east to west, Query Island, Keyhole Island, the Terra Firma Islands, Compass Island and the Flyspot Rocks.
Exploration and name
Mikkelsen Bay was first seen from a distance in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition (FrAE) under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, but was not recognized as a large bay.
It was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) under John Rymill, and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948–49.
The name was proposed by members of BGLE for Ejnar Mikkelsen, Danish Arctic explorer and Inspector for East Greenland, 1934–50.
Features
Clarke Glacier
68°48′S 66°56′W.
A glacier, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) wide and 20 nautical miles (37 km; 23 mi) long, flowing west to Mikkelsen Bay along the north side of Sickle Mountain and Baudin Peaks.
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