Admiralty Bay
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Admiralty Bay () is an irregular bay, 8 km wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km in the South Shetland Islands. The name appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sailor, and is now established in international usage.
A mariner's guide to the region pronounced the bay to have the best anchorage of any of the Shetlands, "being well-sheltered all around and having moderate depths over a bottom of good, stiff clay. Ice from the glaciers is frequently troublesome." [1]
The bay has three fjords: Martell, Mackellar, and Ezcurra.
The Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station is situated on the bay, as is the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base.
[edit] References
- ^ United States Hydrographic Office. South America Pilot, Government Printing Office, 1916.
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