Winds, Bay of

The Bay of Winds is a coastal embayment between and in . It was discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–14, under Mawson, who so named it because of the almost constant outflow of cold dense air from the plateau into the bay.
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  • Cove
  • …is also known as “Bay of Winds”
  • Description: bay

Winds, Bay of

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Latitude
-66.5° or 66° 30′ south
Longitude
97.58333° or 97° 35′ east
Open location code
3M5VGH2M+28
Geo­Names ID
6628192
Wiki­data ID
Q156085

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Winds, Bay of” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “溫德斯灣”
  • Esperanto: “Venta Golfo”
  • French: “baie des Vents”
  • French: “Baie des Vents”
  • German: “Bay of Winds”
  • Hebrew: “מפרץ הרוחות”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bay of Winds”
  • Swedish: “Winds, Bay Of”

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