Victor Bay () is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...
about wide and long, indenting the coast between
Pourquoi Pas Point
Pourquoi Pas () is an ice-covered point which forms the west side of the entrance to Victor Bay in East Antarctica. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition
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and
Mathieu Rock,
Antarctica
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. The bay is marked by an extensive chain of
iceberg
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s breaking away from the high tongue of
Commandant Charcot Glacier. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by
U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica.
History
The committee was established ...
(US-ACAN) for
Paul-Emile Victor, the Director of the , who organized French expeditions to
Greenland
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in 1948-51 and Antarctica in 1948-53 and 1955–56.
Bays of Adélie Land
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