Terra Nova Bay

Terra Nova Bay (English for Terra Nova Bay ) is an approximately 64 km long bay of the Ross Sea on the coast of Victoria Land in Antarctica.

The often ice-free bay located between Cape Washington and the Drygalksi Glacier. Since 1985 located in the bay the Mario Zucchelli Station (formerly Terra Nova Bay Station), an Italian Antarctic research station. Another stop on the Bay is the existing since 1983 German Gondwana Station. In the bay the uninhabited island of Iceland is Inexpressible.

It was named the Bay of Robert Falcon Scott, the leader of the performed 1901-1904 Discovery Expedition of Antarktiks, who named it after the expedition ship Terra Nova.

  • Ross Sea
Inexpressible Island Terra Nova (ship)
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