Land Bay () is an ice-filled bay, about wide, indenting the coast of

Marie Byrd Land Marie Byrd Land (MBL) is an unclaimed region of Antarctica. With an area of , it is the largest unclaimed territory on Earth. It was named after the wife of American naval officer Richard E. Byrd, who explored the region in the early 20th centu ...

, Antarctica, just eastward of Groves Island. It was discovered by the

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(USAS; 1939–41), and takes its name from Land Glacier which descends into the bay.

Location

Land Bay extends from just east of Groves Island and Burnette Rock. Holcomb Glacier flows north into the bay to the east of the island and the west of Trenholm Point. Land Glacier flows north into the bay between Eldred Point to the west and Castillo Point to the east. Further to the east

Strauss Glacier Strauss Glacier () is a glacier, long, flowing between the Ickes Mountains and Coulter Heights to enter the sea at the east side of Land Bay, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Mapping and name The Strauss Glacier was mapped by the United States Geol ...

flows into the bay to the northeast of the

Ickes Mountains The Ickes Mountains (, ) () are a series of coastal mountains that extend west from Strauss Glacier for in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name The Ickes Mountains were discovered from aircraft of the United States Antarctic Servic ...

Features

Groves Island

. An ice-covered island long, lying close off the coast of Marie Byrd Land between

Siemiatkowski Glacier Nickerson Ice Shelf (), is an ice shelf about wide, lying north of Siemiatkowski Glacier and the western part of Ruppert Coast, Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Discovery and name The Nickerson Ice Shelf was first observed and roughly mapped by th ...

and Land Glacier. Mapped from surveys by the

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(USGS) and

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air photos (1959-65). Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for Benjamin F. Groves, meteorologist at Byrd Station, 1964.

Burnette Rock

. A rock high high, lying northwest of Groves Island. Named for Chief Warrant Officer Desmond Burnette,

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, helicopter pilot on the Marie Byrd Land Traverse, 1966-67. He was pilot of the first helicopter to land on this rock during the mapping control traverse with USGS topographic engineers. The name was suggested to US-ACAN by Charles E. Morrison, Jr., USGS who, with Burnette, Thomas Bray, USGS, and Sergeant Donald Bunner, United States Army, occupied and positioned this rock on December 4, 1966.

Holcomb Glacier

. A glacier which drains northward to the coast of Marie Byrd Land southeast of Groves Island. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Leroy G. Holcomb, ionospheric physicist at

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, 1971.

Trenholm Point

. An ice-covered point northwest of Eldred Point. It marks the northern end of the peninsula between Holcomb Glacier and

El-Sayed Glacier The Land Glacier () is a broad, heavily crevassed glacier, about long, descending into Land Bay in Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the United States Antarctic Service (1939–41) and named for Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairma ...

. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photography, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for William L. Trenholm, glaciologist at Byrd Station in three summer seasons, 1967-70.

Eldred Point

. An ice-covered point which marks the west side of the terminus of Land Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for David T. Eldred, a member of the United States Navy winter-over support unit at

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in 1958, 1965 and 1969.

Castillo Point

. An ice-covered point which marks the east side of the terminus of Land Glacier. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-65. Named by US-ACAN for Rudy Castillo, aerographer, United States Navy, with the Marie Byrd Land Survey party and at Hallett Station, respectively, during Operation Deep Freeze 1968 and 1969.

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