Mawson 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 Queen Mary Land 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 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 west and Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay

Vincennes Bay is a large V-shaped bay, 105 km wide at its entrance between Cape Nutt and Cape Folger in Antarctica, marked by several large, steep glaciers near its head, lying along Knox and Budd Coasts. Photographed from the air by USN OpHjp, 1946-47...

 in the east. West of it, on the western side of Shackleton Ice Shelf, is the Davis Sea

Davis Sea

Davis Sea is an area of the sea along the coast of East Antarctica between West Ice Shelf in the west and the Shackleton Ice Shelf in the east, or between 82° and 96°E. East of it is Mawson Sea, and in the west is Cooperation Sea....

. To the east is Bowman Island

Bowman Island

Bowman Island is a high ice-covered island, about long and from wide, shaped like a figure eight. Bowman Island is located at . Bowman Island rises above the northeastern part of Shackleton Ice Shelf, which partially encloses the island, northeast of Cape Elliott...

 and Vincennes Bay.

Two important glacier debouche into the Mawson Sea: Scott Glacier, and Denman Glacier

Denman Glacier

Denman Glacier is a glacier wide, descending north some , which debouches into Shackleton Ice Shelf east of David Island, Queen Mary Land. It was discovered in November 1912 by the Western Base Party of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition under Sir Douglas Mawson. Mawson named the glacier for...

. Calving of Denman Glacier into the Mawson Sea gives rise to the periodically appearing Pobeda Ice Island

Pobeda Ice Island

Pobeda Ice Island, original Russian name остров Победы , is an ice island in the Mawson Sea. It is located off the coast of Queen Mary Land, Australian Antarctic Territory, East Antarctica...

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