# MacKenzie Bay

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Bay in Antarctica

For the bay in Greenland, see [Mackenzie Bay](/source/Mackenzie_Bay). For the bay in Canada, see [Mackenzie Bay, Canada](/source/Mackenzie_Bay%2C_Canada). For the bay on the coast near Sydney, Australia, see [Mackenzies Bay](/source/Mackenzies_Bay).

MacKenzie Bay MacKenzie Bay MacKenzie Bay Location in Antarctica Location Mac. Robertson Land Coordinates 68°38′S 70°35′E / 68.633°S 70.583°E / -68.633; 70.583

**MacKenzie Bay** is a relatively small [embayment](/source/Embayment) of the western extremity of the [Amery Ice Shelf](/source/Amery_Ice_Shelf), Antarctica, about 20 nautical miles (37 km) northeast of [Foley Promontory](/source/Foley_Promontory). On 10 February 1931 the [British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition](/source/British_Australian_New_Zealand_Antarctic_Research_Expedition) (BANZARE) sighted a much larger embayment here and made an airplane flight to sketch its limits. They named it "MacKenzie Sea" after Captain [K.N. MacKenzie](/source/K.N._MacKenzie), the master of the expedition's ship *[Discovery](/source/RRS_Discovery)* in 1930–31. Breakout of a large part of Amery Ice Shelf has drastically reduced the size of this feature; in 1968 the bay was 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide. Several [Norwegian](/source/Norway) [whaling ships](/source/Whaling_ship) sighted the original embayment nearly simultaneously with BANZARE; the [whale-catcher](/source/Whale-catcher) *Seksern* (Captain Brunvoll) reached this area on 13 January 1931 and the *Torlyn* (Captain [Klarius Mikkelsen](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klarius_Mikkelsen&action=edit&redlink=1)) on 13 February 1931.[1]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-gnis_1-0)** ["MacKenzie Bay"](https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:9232). *[Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System)*. [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey), [United States Department of the Interior](/source/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior). Retrieved 2013-07-17.

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