Land Bay () is an ice-filled bay, about wide, indenting the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, just eastward of Groves Island. It was discovered by the

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(USAS; 1939–41), and takes its name from

Land Glacier Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of the planet Earth that is not submerged by the ocean or other bodies of water. It makes up 29% of Earth's surface and includes the continents and various isla ...

which descends into the bay.

Location

Land Bay extends from just east of Groves Island and Burnette Rock. Holcomb Glacier flows north into the bay to the east of the island and the west of Trenholm Point.

flows north into the bay between Eldred Point to the west and Castillo Point to the east. Further to the east

Strauss Glacier Strauss Glacier () is a glacier, 40 nautical miles (70 km) long, flowing between the Ickes Mountains and Coulter Heights to enter the sea at the east side of Land Bay, Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey (USGS) from sur ...

flows into the bay to the northeast of the

Ickes Mountains The Ickes Mountains (, ) () are a series of coastal mountains that extend west from Strauss Glacier for in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. The mountains were discovered from aircraft of the U.S. Antarctic Service on 18 December 1940. The name Icke ...

Features

Groves Island

. An ice-covered island long, lying close off the coast of Marie Byrd Land between

Siemiatkowski Glacier Siemiatkowski Glacier () is a glacier about 25 miles (40 km) long, flowing northwest to Nickerson Ice Shelf on the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Mapped from surveys by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and U.S. Navy The United ...

and

. Mapped from surveys by the

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(USGS) and

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air photos (1959-65). Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Benjamin F. Groves, meteorologist at Byrd Station, 1964.

Burnette Rock

. A rock high high, lying northwest of Groves Island. Named for Chief Warrant Officer Desmond Burnette,

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, helicopter pilot on the Marie Byrd Land Traverse, 1966-67. He was pilot of the first helicopter to land on this rock during the mapping control traverse with USGS topographic engineers. The name was suggested to US-ACAN by Charles E. Morrison, Jr., USGS who, with Burnette, Thomas Bray, USGS, and Sergeant Donald Bunner, United States Army, occupied and positioned this rock on December 4, 1966.

Holcomb Glacier

. A glacier which drains northward to the coast of Marie Byrd Land southeast of Groves Island. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Leroy G. Holcomb, ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station, 1971.

Trenholm Point

. An ice-covered point northwest of Eldred Point. It marks the northern end of the peninsula between Holcomb Glacier and

El-Sayed Glacier El-Sayed Glacier () is a glacier about long which drains the northeast slopes of Zuncich Hill in Marie Byrd Land. It flows northeast to enter Land Glacier at the south side of Mount Shirley. It was mapped by the United States Geological Surv ...

. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photography, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for William L. Trenholm, glaciologist at Byrd Station in three summer seasons, 1967-70.

Eldred Point

. An ice-covered point which marks the west side of the terminus of Land Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for David T. Eldred, a member of the United States Navy winter-over support unit at McMurdo Station in 1958, 1965 and 1969.

Castillo Point

. An ice-covered point which marks the east side of the terminus of Land Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Rudy Castillo, aerographer, United States Navy, with the Marie Byrd Land Survey party and at

Hallett Station Cape Hallett is a snow-free area ( Antarctic oasis) on the northern tip of the Hallett Peninsula on the Ross Sea coast of Victoria Land, East Antarctica. Cape Adare lies to the north. History In 1956, during Operation Deep Freeze II, was dama ...

, respectively, during Operation Deep Freeze 1968 and 1969.

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