Lauritzen Bay is a 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...

 about 12 nautical miles (22 km) wide, occupied by bay ice and ice shell, indenting the coast between Cape Yevgenov

Cape Yevgenov

Cape Yevgenov is an ice-covered cape midway along the northeast side of Krylov Peninsula, forming the west entrance to Lauritzen Bay, Antarctica. Photographed by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump , Soviet Antarctic Expedition , and ANARE . Named by Soviet Antarctic Expedition after Russian...

 and Coombes Ridge

Coombes Ridge

Coombes Ridge is a rocky coastal ridge west of Magga Peak. The ridge, which runs roughly north-south, forms the eastern extremity of Lauritzen Bay. This area was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947, and the ridge was mapped on February 20, 1959 by Australian National...

. The Matusevich Glacier Tongue joins Coombes Ridge in forming the west side of the bay. It was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump in 1947. It was sketched and photographed by Phillip Law

Phillip Law

Phillip Garth Law AC, CBE, FAA was an Australian scientist and explorer who served as director of Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions from 1949 to 1966.-Early life:...

, leader of ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions

The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division .-The ANARE Name:...

) (Magga Dan) on February 20, 1959. It was then named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) for Knud Lauritzen, a shipowner of Copenhagen, Denmark, owner of Magga Dan and other vessels used by ANARE since 1954.