Doggers Bay

Doggers Bay

Doggers Bay (69°7′S 69°9′E / 69.117°S 69.15°E / -69.117; 69.15) is an ice-filled bay about 16 nautical miles (30 km) long and 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide on the west side of the Amery Ice Shelf, between Foley Promontory and Landon Promontory. Plotted from ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) air photos taken in 1956. First visited in November 1962 by an ANARE dog-sledge party led by I. Landon-Smith. Named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) after the dog-sledge party.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Doggers Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).