Jordanoff Bay is the 5 km wide bay indenting for 4.9 km Davis Coast

Davis Coast

Davis Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on the continent of...

 in Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

 on the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

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. Entered between Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point

Wennersgaard Point is a point forming both the east side of the entrance to Lanchester Bay and the southwest side of the entrance to Jordanoff Bay on Davis Coast, the west coast of Graham Land in Antarctica. First charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Nov.-Dec. 1902 and named after Ole C...

 and Tarakchiev Point

Tarakchiev Point

Tarakchiev Point is a sharp, rocky point forming the west extremity of Whittle Peninsula on Davis Coast in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula...

.

The bay is named for the Bulgarian-American

Bulgarian Americans

Bulgarian Americans are citizens of the United States with Bulgarian heritage. For the 2000 US Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgarian ancestry...

 pioneer of aviation Assen Jordanoff

Assen Jordanoff

Assen "Jerry" Jordanoff was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer, and aviator...

 (1896–1967) who built the first Bulgaria

Bulgaria

Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...

n engine-powered airplane in 1915 and took part in the construction of B-17 Flying Fortress and other US planes.

Location

Jordanoff Bay is located at 63°50′20"S 59°52′00"W. German-British mapping in 1996.

Map

• Trinity Peninsula. Scale 1:250000 topographic map No. 5697. Institut für Angewandte Geodäsie and British Antarctic Survey, 1996.