Browns Bay
Browns Bay is a bay 1.5 miles wide, entered between Thomson Point and Cape Geddes along the north coast of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Charted in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under Bruce, who named it for Robert Neal Rudmose-Brown, naturalist of the expedition.- Type: Cove
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Browns, bahia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ross Peaks.
Ross Peaks
Peak
Ross Peaks is a series of elevations rising to about 450 m and trending NW-SE between Ferguslie Peninsula and Fitchie Bay in Laurie Island, South Orkney Islands. Ross Peaks is situated 2½ km southeast of Browns Bay.
Browns Bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Browns Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “布朗斯灣”
- German: “Browns Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Browns Bay i Sør-Orknøyane”
- Spanish: “Browns, bahía”
- Swedish: “Browns Bay”
- Swedish: “Browns, bahía”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Geddes, Cape and Ferguslie Peninsula.
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