Nilsen Bay

Nilsen Bay is a small bay just west of , and 18 nautical miles east-southeast of Cape Daly. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Mawson, who named it after the master of the Norwegian whaler Sir James Clark Ross which transported coal to Antarctic waters for the Discovery.
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Latitude
-67.6° or 67° 36′ south
Longitude
64.56667° or 64° 34′ east
Open location code
3J46CH28+2M
Geo­Names ID
6622277
Wiki­data ID
Q156157

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Nilsen Bay” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “尼爾森灣 (麥克羅伯特森地)”
  • Chinese: “尼爾森灣”
  • German: “Nilsen Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nilsen Bay”
  • Swedish: “Nilsen Bay”

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