Sulzberger Bay

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title: "Sulzberger Bay" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bays-of-antarctica", "king-edward-vii-land"] description: "Bay in Antarctica" topic_path: "general/bays-of-antarctica" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulzberger_Bay" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Bay in Antarctica ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox body of water"]

Field	Value
name	Sulzberger Bay
image	File:Asar 12-16-03-2011 H.jpg
alt	Two satellite images taken four days apart showing new icebergs forming
caption	Images captured by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar on 12 March and 16 March 2011. The newly formed icebergs can clearly be seen in the second image. (European Space Agency)
location	Antarctica
coordinates
oceans	Pacific Ocean
pushpin_map	Antarctica
pushpin_map_alt	Location map of Antarctica with Sulzberger Bay at the bottom
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| name = Sulzberger Bay | image = File:Asar 12-16-03-2011 H.jpg | alt = Two satellite images taken four days apart showing new icebergs forming | caption = Images captured by Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar on 12 March and 16 March 2011. The newly formed icebergs can clearly be seen in the second image. (European Space Agency) | location = Antarctica | coordinates = | oceans = Pacific Ocean | pushpin_map = Antarctica | pushpin_label_position = | pushpin_map_alt = Location map of Antarctica with Sulzberger Bay at the bottom | pushpin_map_caption = Sulzberger Bay () is a bay indenting the front of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf between Fisher Island and Vollmer Island, along the coast of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica.

Location

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/C76144s1_Ant.Map_Guest_Peninsula.jpg" caption="Northeastern part of bay"] ::

|caption=Southern part of bay}} Sulzberger Bay is on the Southern Ocean coast of Marie Byrd Land. It extends along the coast of the Edward VII Peninsula from Fisher Island to Vollmer Island. The Richter Glacier enters the ocean just west of the bay. The Swinburne Ice Shelf, which is fed by the Cumbie Glacier, extends along the coast between Fisher Island and Olson Island, the northern of the White Islands at the mouth of the Butler Glacier, which enters the bay between these islands and the Reeves Peninsula. Beyond this peninsula the Gerry Glacier extends into the bay to the west of the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, which extends to the north past Kizer Island and Cronenwett Island to Vollmer Island at the eastern end of the bay.

Discovery and name

Sulzberger Bay was discovered by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE) on December 5, 1929. It was named by Byrd for Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher of The New York Times, a supporter of the Byrd expeditions in 1928–1930 and 1933–1935.

Iceberg formation

The ice shelf released icebergs within a day of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Scientists have linked the ice calving to the tsunami reaching the ice shelf, some 13,600 km away from the earthquake epicenter. The main iceberg was approximately the area of Manhattan Island. In total, the icebergs calved from the ice shelf totalled an area of nearly 125 km. This section of the shelf had not moved since 1946.

White Islands

Olson Island

Webber Island

Chandler Island

Other features

Richter Glacier

Fisher Island

Swinburne Ice Shelf

Cumbie Glacier

Reeves Peninsula

Gerry Glacier

Sulzberger Basin

References

Sources

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