3-678: Alasheyev Bight is a bight in the western part of the coast of Enderby Land . Kirkby Head is a sheer coastal outcrop on Tange Promontory , at the east side of the entrance to Alasheyev Bight. Alasheyev Bight was photographed from the air by Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1956. Plotted in 1957 by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition and named for D.A. Alasheyev ( Дмитрий Александрович Алашеев ), Russian hydrographer. 67°30′S 45°40′E / 67.500°S 45.667°E / -67.500; 45.667 This Enderby Land location article
6-592: A bight as a bay that could be sailed out of on a single tack in a square-rigged sailing vessel, regardless of the direction of the wind (typically meaning the apex of the bight is less than 25 degrees from the edges). According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea , an indentation with an area as large as (or larger than) that of the semi-circle whose diameter is a line drawn across
9-466: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Bight (geography) In geography , a bight ( / b aɪ t / ) is a concave bend or curvature in a coastline , river or other geographical feature, or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature. Such bays are typically broad, open, shallow and only slightly recessed. Bights are distinguished from sounds , in that sounds are much deeper. Traditionally, explorers defined
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