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Rennick Bay: Antarctica
SOURCE: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Bethesda, MD, USA
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This page presents the geographical name data for Rennick Bay in Antarctica, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division

Feature Name (see definition): Rennick Bay

Feature Class (see definition): Bay

Country Code (see definition): AQ (Antarctica)

Feature ID (see definition): 12532

Primary Latitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 70° 06' 00" S

Primary Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 161° 20' 00" E

Primary Latitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -70.1

Primary Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): 161.3333333

Elevation (see definition): No data

Decision Year (see definition): 01/01/1947

Description (see definition): An embayment of the coastline at the terminus of Rennick Glacier. It is bounded on the west and east by Belousov Point and Stuhlinger Ice Piedmont. The eastern part of the bay was discovered from the ship Terra Nova, of the British Antarctic Expedition (BrAE) (1910-13) under Scott. Named by the British Antarctic Expedition (BrAE) for Lieutenant Henry E. de P. Rennick, Royal Navy (RN), an officer on the Terra Nova. The bay was photographed by U.S. Navy (USN) OpHjp (1947) and by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SovAE) (1958).

Date Created (see definition): No data

Date Edited (see definition): No data

NOTE: The information regarding Rennick Bay in Antarctica on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the Antarctica, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Rennick Bay information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Rennick Bay should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.


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