Atka Iceport

The supply vessel Polarstern at Atka Bay

The Atka Bay is a Eishafen in Antarctica, which is 16 km long and wide. It marks a more or less permanent indentation in the front of the Ekstrom Ice Shelf on the coast of Queen Maud Land.

The Atka Bay has been described in detail by Norwegian cartographers from air photographs and studies of the Norwegian - British - Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1949-1952), recorded. It was named after the USS Atka, which was in February 1955 at anchor there. These should investigate possible locations for ground stations for operations in the International Geophysical Year.

The Neumayer - Station III is located on Atka Bay on the approximately 200 -meter-thick Ekström Ice Shelf, a few kilometers south of the detached Neumayer Station II