Lanchester Bay () is a bay wide lying east of

Havilland Point The Wright Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont extending westward from Lanchester Bay along the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. Location The Wright Ice Piedmont lies on the Davis Coast on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula. It fa ...

, along the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

, Antarctica.

Location

Lanchester Bay is on the

Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advi ...

on the west side of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It opens onto

Orléans Strait Orléans Strait is a strait running NE-SW and separating Trinity Island and Tower Island from Davis Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly first seen by Nathaniel B. Palmer, captain of the Hero, on November 18, 1820. Named and outlined in part by ...

to the northwest. Wright Ice Piedmont is to the southwest, the Detroit Plateau to the southeast and Sabine Glacier to the northeast.

Mapping and name

Lanchester Bay was photographed by

Hunting Aerosurveys Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other flight, airborne platforms. When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial v ...

in 1955–57 and mapped from these photos by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies The Falkland Islands Dependencies was the constitutional arrangement from 1843 until 1985 for administering the v ...

(FIDS). It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 for Frederick W. Lanchester (1868-1946), an aeronautical engineer who laid the foundations of modern

airfoil An airfoil (American English) or aerofoil (British English) is a streamlined body that is capable of generating significantly more Lift (force), lift than Drag (physics), drag. Wings, sails and propeller blades are examples of airfoils. Foil (fl ...

theory.

Features

Features and nearby features, from south to north, include:

Ezdimir Buttress

An ice-covered buttress rising to high on the northwest side of Detroit Plateau on Davis Coast in Graham Land. Situated between tributaries to Temple Glacier, south of Mount Bris. Steep and partly ice-free SW, northwest and northeast slopes. Named after Ezdimir Mountain in Western Bulgaria.

Temple Glacier

. Glacier flowing into the south side of Lanchester Bay. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1955-57 and mapped from these photos by the FIDS. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for

Félix du Temple de la Croix Félix du Temple de la Croix (18 July 1823 – 3 November 1890) (usually simply called Félix du Temple) was a French naval officer and an inventor, born into an ancient Normandy, Norman family. He developed some of the Early flying machines, ...

(1823-90), French naval officer who in 1857 designed the first powered model airplane to rise unaided, fly freely and land safely.

Volov Peak

A rocky peak rising to high at the southwest extremity of Korten Ridge. Situated southeast of Havilland Point, south-southwest of Chubra Peak and west of Mount Bris. Surmounting Temple Glacier to the SW. Named after Panayot Volov (1850-1876), a leader of the

April Uprising of 1876 The April Uprising () was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876. The rebellion was suppressed by irregular military, irregular Ottoman bashi-bazouk units that engaged in indiscriminate slaught ...

for Bulgarian independence.

Mount Bris

. A broad mountain rising west of the head of Sabine Glacier and south of Cape Kater. Named by UK-APC for

Jean Marie Le Bris Jean Marie Le Bris (25 March 1817, Concarneau – 17 February 1872, Douarnenez) was a French aviator, born in Concarneau, Brittany who built two glider aircraft and performed at least one flight on board of his first machine in late 1856. His nam ...

(1808–72), French naval officer who designed a glider and became the first glider pilot, in 1857.

Chubra Peak

A peak rising to high east of Temple Glacier and south of Kasabova Glacier. Situated southeast of the head of Lanchester Bay, south-southeast of Milkov Point and southwest of Sredorek Peak. Named after the settlement of Chubra in Eastern Bulgaria.

Kasabova Glacier

A long and wide glacier on Davis Coast. Draining northwestwards, and turning south of Chanute Peak to flow westwards into

at the head of Lanchester Bay. Named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Rayna Kasabova (1897-1957), a volunteer in the First Balkan War who became the first woman to take part in a combat air mission on October 30, 1912.

Korten Ridge

A ridge extending in south–north direction and wide, rising to high (Mount Bris) . Bounded by Podvis Col linking it to Detroit Plateau to the southeast, Temple Glacier to the southwest. Lanchester Bay to the west, Wennersgaard Point and Jordanoff Bay to the north, and Sabine Glacier to the east. Named after the settlement of Korten in Southeastern Bulgaria.

Chanute Peak

. A peak on the east side of Lanchester Bay, south of Wennersgaard Point. Named by UK-APC for

Octave Chanute Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of ...

(1832-1910), American designer of gliders who first introduced moveable planes for the purpose of control and stability, 1896-97.

Milkov Point

A conspicuous rocky point on the east side of Lanchester Bay formed by an offshoot of Chanute Peak. Situated east of Havilland Point and south-southwest of Wennersgaard Point. Named for the Bulgarian pioneer of aviation Radul Milkov (1883-1962) who, while on a joint combat air mission with Prodan Tarakchiev during the First Balkan War, used the first air-dropped bombs on October 16, 1912.

Bankya Peak

A peak rising to high east of Lanchester Bay and west of Sabine Glacier. Situated south-southeast of Wennersgaard Point, northeast of Milkov Point, north of Chanute Peak and west-northwest of Velichkov Knoll. Named after the town of Bankya in Western Bulgaria.

Sratsimir Hill

A hill rising to high at the north extremity of Korten Ridge. Situated north-northwest of Sredorek Peak, north by west of Bankya Peak, southeast of Wennersgaard Point and northwest of Velichkov Knoll. Named after the settlement of

Sratsimir Sratsimir (; 1324–31) was a Bulgarian magnate with the title of despot (title), Despot, holding the territory of Kran, Stara Zagora Province, Kran. It is unclear when he received the governorship of Kran; he held it before and during the reign ...

in Northeastern Bulgaria, in association with the Bulgarian ruler Tsar Ivan Sratsimir, 1356-1396.

Wennersgaard Point

. A point forming the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay. First charted by the SwedAE in November–December 1902 and named after Ole C. Wennersgaard, a seaman of the expedition who died while wintering on Paulet Island in 1903.

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