Davis Sea is an area of the sea

Sea

A sea generally refers to a large body of salt water, but the term is used in other contexts as well. Most commonly, it means a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, and is commonly used as a synonym for ocean...

 along the coast of East Antarctica

East Antarctica

East Antarctica, also called Greater Antarctica, constitutes the majority of the Antarctic continent, lying on the Indian Ocean side of the Transantarctic Mountains...

 between West Ice Shelf

West Ice Shelf

The West Ice Shelf is a prominent ice shelf extending about 288 km in an E-W direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast in East Antarctica between Barrier Bay and Posadowsky Bay. Discovered and named by the First German Antarctica Expedition, 1901-03, under Dr. Erich von Drygalski. The toponym...

 in the west and the Shackleton Ice Shelf

Shackleton Ice Shelf

Shackleton Ice Shelf is an extensive ice shelf fronting the coast of East Antarctica for about 384 km , projecting seaward about 145 km in the western portion and 64 km in the east. It occupies an area of 33,820 km². It is part of Mawson Sea and separates the Queen Mary Coast to the west from...

 in the east, or between 82° and 96°E. East of it is Mawson Sea

Mawson Sea

Mawson Sea is an area of the sea along the Queen Mary Land coast of East Antarctica between the Shackleton Ice Shelf in the west and Vincennes Bay in the east. West of it, on the western side of Shackleton Ice Shelf, is the Davis Sea. To the east is Bowman Island and Vincennes Bay.Two important...

, and in the west is Cooperation Sea

Cooperation Sea

Cooperation Sea, also called Commonwealth Sea or Sodruzhestva Sea, is a sea of the Southern Ocean, between Enderby Land and West Ice Shelf , off the coast of MacRobertson Land and Princess Elizabeth Land...

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According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, it stretches from 87°E to 98°E, and is up to 1300 metres deep. Its area is given as only 21,000 km.

It washes the coast of Princess Elizabeth Land

Princess Elizabeth Land

Princess Elizabeth Land is the sector of the Australian Antarctic Territory between longitude 73° east and Cape Penck 87°43' east. Princess Elizabeth Land is located between 64°56'S and 90°00'S and between 73°35' E and 87°43'E...

 (there only Leopold and Astrid Coast

Leopold and Astrid Coast

Leopold and Astrid Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying between the western extremity of the West Ice Shelf, at 81° 24' E, and Cape Penck, at 87° 43' E. It is located in the eastern half of Princess Elizabeth Land. It was discovered and explored in an airplane flight from the...

), Kaiser Wilhelm II Land

Kaiser Wilhelm II Land

Kaiser Wilhelm II Land is the part of Antarctica lying between Cape Penck, at 87°43'E, and Cape Filchner, at 91°54'E and is claimed as part of the Australian Antarctic Territory, although this claim is not universally recognized....

, and Queen Mary Land, all sectors of the Australian Antarctic Territory

Australian Antarctic Territory

The Australian Antarctic Territory is a part of Antarctica. It was claimed by the United Kingdom and placed under the authority of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1933. It is the largest territory of Antarctica claimed by any nation...

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About 55 km off the coast of Queen Mary Land is Drygalski Island

Drygalski Island

Drygalski Island is an ice-capped island with a dome about high that is long and rises to in the Davis Sea of the Southern Ocean about north of the coast of Queen Mary Land and north-northeast of Cape Filchner. Drygalski Island is located at and has an elevation of . Drygalski Island has an...

. Russia

Russia

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n Mirny Station

Mirny Station

Mirny is a Russian science station in Antarctica, located on the Antarctic coast of the Davis Sea in the Australian Antarctic Territory. Named after support vessel of the Bellingshausen's expedition....

 was built on the coast of Queen Mary Land in 1956. Roscoe Glacier

Roscoe Glacier

Roscoe Glacier is an Antarctic channel glacier, 12 nautical miles long and 3 to 5 nautical miles wide, debouching from a small valley onto the west portion of Shackleton Ice Shelf, midway between Cape Moyes and Junction Corner. Charted as a valley depression during a southern reconnaissance in...

 flows into the eastern part of Davis Sea. Close offshore are Bigelow Rock

Bigelow Rock

Bigelow Rock is a low, ice-covered rock about long, with numerous rock exposures close above sea level, lying immediately west of Shackleton Ice Shelf, about northeast of Junction Corner. It was delineated from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump , 1946–47. An astronomical...

 and the Gillies Islands

Gillies Islands

The Gillies Islands are three small, rocky islands protruding above Shackleton Ice Shelf 3 nautical miles north of Cape Moyes.Discovered by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Douglas Mawson, 1911–14, and named for F.J. Gillies, chief engineer of the ship Aurora....

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Discovered by Australian Antarctic Expedition (1911-14) from the Aurora. Named by Sir Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

for Captain J.K. Davis, master of the Aurora and second in command of the expedition.