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Mikkelsen Bay
Mikkelsen Bay
is a bay, wide at its mouth and indenting , entered between
Bertrand Ice Piedmont
and
Cape Berteaux
along the west coast of
Graham Land
,
Antarctica
. First seen from a distance in 1909 by the
French Antarctic Expedition
under
Jean-Baptiste Charcot
, but not recognized as a large bay. First surveyed in 1936 by the
BGLE
under Rymill, and resurveyed by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
in 1948-49. The name was proposed by members of BGLE for
Ejnar Mikkelsen
, Danish Arctic explorer and Inspector for East Greenland, 1934-50.
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