Breid Bay is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
about wide, irregularly indenting, for as much as , the
ice shelf fringing the coast of
Queen Maud Land. This feature was charted and descriptively named "Breidvika" ("broad bay") by
H.E. Hansen, as a result of aerial photographs made on February 6, 1937, by the
Lars Christensen Expedition of 1936–37.
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References
Bays of Queen Maud Land
Princess Ragnhild Coast
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