MacKenzie Bay

{{Short description|Bay in Antarctica}} {{about||the bay in Greenland|Mackenzie Bay|the bay in Canada|Mackenzie Bay, Canada|the bay on the coast near Sydney, Australia|Mackenzies Bay}} {{Infobox body of water | name= MacKenzie Bay | native_name= | other_name= | image = Mackenzie Bay - Antarctica.jpg | caption =MacKenzie Bay | pushpin_map = Antarctica | pushpin_map_caption = Location in [[Antarctica]] | location= [[Mac. Robertson Land]] | coords= {{coord|68|38|S|70|35|E|region:AQ_type:waterbody_source:GNIS-enwiki|display=inline, title}} | rivers= | oceans= | countries= | length= | width= | area= | depth= | settlements= }} '''MacKenzie Bay''' is a relatively small [[embayment]] of the western extremity of the [[Amery Ice Shelf]], Antarctica, about {{Convert|20|nmi|km}} northeast of [[Foley Promontory]]. On 10 February 1931 the [[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]], the master of the expedition's ship ''[[RRS Discovery|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 {{Convert|15|nmi|km}} wide. Several [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[whaling ship]]s sighted the original embayment nearly simultaneously with BANZARE; the [[whale-catcher]] ''Seksern'' (Captain Brunvoll) reached this area on 13 January 1931 and the ''Torlyn'' (Captain [[Klarius Mikkelsen]]) on 13 February 1931.<ref name=gnis/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis | type = antarid | id = 9232| name = MacKenzie Bay | accessdate = 2013-07-17}}</ref> }}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mackenzie Bay}} [[Category:Bays of Mac. Robertson Land]]