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Eltanin Bay
Eltanin
Bay
is
a bay
in
Antarctica
about wide in the southern
Bellingshausen Sea
that indents the coast of
Ellsworth Land
west
of the
Wirth Peninsula
. It was mapped by the
United States Geological Survey
from surveys and U.S.
Navy
air
photos
, 1961–66, and was named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names
for the
United States Antarctic Research Program
oceanographic research ship
Eltanin
which made
numerous
research cruises in the
South Pacific Ocean
.