Ainsworth Bay
Ainsworth Bay is an ice-filled recession of the coastline, eight kilometres wide, between Cape Bage and Cape Webb in Antarctica. Discovered by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, and named by him for George Ainsworth, a member of the expedition who served as leader and meteorologist with the Australasian Antarctic Expedition party on Macquarie Island during 1911–1913.- Cove
- …is also known as “Ainsworth Bay, Antarctica”
- Description: bay
- Categories
- Location: Antarctica
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Latitude
-67.8° or 67° 48′ south
Longitude
146.66667° or 146° 40′ east
Open location code
3R486M28+2M
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Ainsworth Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “安思沃斯灣”
- German: “Ainsworth Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ איינסוורת‘”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ainsworth Bay”
- Portuguese: “Baía Ainsworth”
- Swedish: “Ainsworth Bay”
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