Mikkelsen Bay

Not to be confused with Mikkelsen Harbour

Mikkelsen Bay is a bay between Bertrand Ice Piedmont and Cape Berteaux on the Fallières Coast of Graham Land in the British Antarctic Territory.

The bay was sighted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, in January 1909, but not recognized as a large bay. It was surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936, and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from "Stonington Island" in 1948.

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named the bay after Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen (1880-1971), a Danish Arctic explorer and member of Amdrup expedition to Eastern Greenland in 1900, and of Baldwin-Ziegler Polar Expedition of 1901-02; Joint Leader of expedition to the Beaufort Sea, 1906-08, and Leader of Danish expedition to North-Eastern Greenland, 1909-12. Mikkelsen was the founder of the Scoresby Sund Eskimo settlement in Eastern Greenland in 1924, and Inspector for Eastern Greenland, 1933-51.

Location

• Location map: 68°44’55"S, 67°7’44"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Mikkelsen Bay