Eltanin Bay [SEP] continent
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.
See also.
- Alison Ice Stream
ridges, are known by the ship's name and cruise number (ex. "Eltanin-19").
As of mid-1973, "Eltanin" was laid up in San Francisco Bay, her research career at an end.
Inactivation.
"Eltanin" was placed out of service at an unknown date and struck from the Naval Vessel Register, also at an unknown date, and transferred to the U.S. Maritime Administration for lay up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet.
Argentine Navy service.
In 1974 she was