Grazzini Bay is an ice-filled coastal embayment, 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, between Gentile Point

Gentile Point

Gentile Point is a rounded, ice-covered point 7 nautical miles north of Cape Parr, extending seaward from Darley Hills on the west side of Ross Ice Shelf. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Peter A. Gentile, Master of USNS Alatna in U.S...

 and Fisher Point

Fisher Point

Fisher Point is a rock coastal point on the east margin of the Darley Hills, Churchill Mountains. The point marks the south side of the mouth of ice-filled Grazzini Bay at Ross Ice Shelf. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Franklin L. Fisher, Chief of the Illustrations Division,...

 on the east side of Darley Hills

Darley Hills

Darley Hills is a range of high, ice-covered coastal hills overlooking Ross Ice Shelf, trending north-south for about 20 nautical miles between Capes Douglas and Parr. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for James M...

, Churchill Mountains

Churchill Mountains

The Churchill Mountains is a mountain range bordering the western side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Byrd Glacier and Nimrod Glacier in Antarctica...

. The bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 opens to Ross Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) after Athos D. Grazzini, cartographer and toponymic specialist on the National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic Magazine

National Geographic, formerly the National Geographic Magazine, is the official journal of the National Geographic Society. It published its first issue in 1888, just nine months after the Society itself was founded...

staff from about 1950-70. One of several features in Darley Hills that are named for NGM staff.