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Adie Inlet
Adie Inlet: ice-filled inlet of the Larsen Ice Shelf between Veier Head and Astro Cliffs, Oscar II Coast, Graham Land, at 66°25'S 62°20'W; about 40 km long; named 1947–51 for FIDS geologist Raymond Adie.
Admiralty Bay
Admiralty Bay, King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: a glacial fjord bay opening to Bransfield Strait, about 120-150 km2, up to roughly 600 m deep, fed by twenty marine-terminating glaciers, designated ASMA No. 1 with Brazilian, Polish, and Peruvian stations.
Ambush Bay
Ambush Bay, a bay on the north coast of Joinville Island, Antarctic Peninsula, east of King Point; named by the UK in 1957, formerly Bahía Carminatti, an Adélie penguin Important Bird Area.
Amundsen Gulf
Amundsen Gulf: Arctic embayment, 400 km long, between Banks Island and Canada's mainland coast, westernmost Northwest Passage entrance; named for Roald Amundsen, entered 1905; Cape Bathurst polynya.
Andvord Bay
Andvord Bay: glaciomarine fjord on the Danco Coast, Western Antarctic Peninsula, in Gerlache Strait; ~20 km long, five tidewater glaciers, deep >400 m basins; FjordEco study site 2015-2017.
Antarctic Sound
Antarctic Sound, nicknamed Iceberg Alley for its giant tabular icebergs, is a 30-mile strait between Joinville Island and the Antarctic Peninsula, first navigated in 1902.
Auvert Bay
Auvert Bay is a bay between Cape Evensen and Cape Bellue on the Graham Coast, Antarctic Peninsula, at 66°14′S 65°45′W. Charted by the French Antarctic Expedition 1908–10 as Baie Auvert, approved by the UK APC in 1953.
Barclay Bay
Barclay Bay, also recorded as Barclay's Bay (variant not adopted), is a bay between Cape Shirreff and Start Point on the north side of Livingston Island, Antarctica, at 62°33′S 060°58′W.
Barilari Bay
Barilari Bay (Bahía Barilari) is a glacier-marine fjord on the Graham Coast of the west Antarctic Peninsula at 65°55′S 64°43′W, named for Argentine admiral Atilio Barilari, with five tidewater glaciers and warm deep-water intrusions.
Bathurst Inlet
Bathurst Inlet is a large north-south bay in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut, Canada, opening into Coronation Gulf. Its seasonal communities are Umingmaktok and Bathurst Inlet; basin 7,700 km², depth about 350 m.
Bays of Macquarie Island
The bays of Macquarie Island, a sub-Antarctic Australian reserve, include Buckles Bay and Hasselborough Bay at the north end, historic landing points for sealing and penguin-oil industries.
Bellingshausen Sea (landform)
The Bellingshausen Sea is a Southern Ocean embayment west of the Antarctic Peninsula between Alexander and Thurston Islands, discovered in 1821 and named for Admiral Bellingshausen; its shelf is flooded by warm Circumpolar Deep Water driving rapid ice shelf melt and sea ice decline.
Bigo Bay
Bigo Bay (Bigo, bahía) is an 8 by 6 nautical mile bay on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Cape Garcia and Magnier Peninsula; named by John Rymill after Mount Bigo following the 1935-36 BGLE survey.
Bone Bay
Bone Bay, also Caleta Bone, is a rectangular bay on the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, nearly 10 nautical miles wide between Notter Point and Cape Roquemaurel; charted by FIDS in 1948 and named for midshipman Thomas M. Bone.
Börgen Bay
Börgen Bay, also Bahía Börgen, is a bay on the southeast coast of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for German astronomer Carl Börgen; site of the retreating William Glacier.
Bourgeois Fjord
Bourgeois Fjord (Fiord Bourgeois) is a 50 km-long fjord in Marguerite Bay, western Antarctic Peninsula, dividing Loubet Coast from Fallières Coast. Charted by Charcot's 1908-10 expedition and named for Col. Joseph E. Bourgeois; deglaciated about 9,000 years BP.
Buls Bay
Buls Bay (Bahía Buls) is a 4 km wide bay indenting the east side of Brabant Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, at 64°24′S 62°18′W; discovered and named by de Gerlache's 1897–99 Belgian expedition for Charles Buls, Burgomaster of Brussels.
Cabinet Inlet
Cabinet Inlet is a frozen inlet, 36 miles long, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, one of the main glacier-fed inlets of the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
Charcot Bay
Charcot Bay is a bay between Cape Kater and Cape Kjellman on the Davis Coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, charted in 1902 by Nordenskjöld's Swedish expedition and named for French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot; a second, smaller Charcot Bay lies in Victoria Land.
Charlotte Bay
Charlotte Bay is a bay on the Danco Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in 1898 and named for Georges Lecointe's fiancée.
Chaunskaya Bay
Chaunskaya Bay (Chaun Bay, Чаунская губа), Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, Chukotka, Russia; 140 km long, shallow, near Pevek; hosts a warm-water 'Arctic oasis' ecosystem sustained by hydrothermal submarine groundwater discharge.
Cumberland Bay
Cumberland Bay is the largest fjord on South Georgia, splitting into East and West Bay and sheltering Grytviken, the whaling station founded there in 1904.
Cumberland Sound
Cumberland Sound (Kangiqtualuk) is a large embayment on southeast Baffin Island, Nunavut, opening to Davis Strait. About 250 km long, a historic whaling centre visited by William Penny in 1839 and Franz Boas in 1883–84, home to Greenland halibut and a threatened beluga population.
Dallmann Bay
Dallmann Bay: bay between Brabant and Anvers Islands, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica; charted 1874 by Eduard Dallmann; Eastern Dallmann Bay is protected as ASPA 153 (520 km²).
Darbel Bay
Darbel Bay (Marin Darbel Bay) is a bay on the Loubet Coast, west Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at 66°30'S 65°55'W, bounded by Cape Bellue and the Darbel Islands and studied for its tidewater glaciers and seafloor moraines.
Darnley Bay
Darnley Bay, a roughly 45 km Arctic inlet off Amundsen Gulf, Northwest Territories, Canada, near Paulatuk; home of the Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam Marine Protected Area, Hornaday River Arctic char, and Cape Parry seabird colonies.
Discovery Bay
Discovery Bay, also called Chile Bay, is a bay on northeast Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, site of Chile's Arturo Prat base (1947), Ecuador's Pedro Vicente Maldonado station, and the protected benthic habitat ASPA 144.
Disko Bay
Disko Bay (Qeqertarsuup Tunua) is a bay in West Greenland at 69°N, 53°W, fed by icebergs from Jakobshavn glacier, with seasonal sea ice from January to June, rich Palaeo-Eskimo archaeology, and Danish colonial towns founded 1734–1773.
Duse Bay
Duse Bay is a bay on the south side of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctic Peninsula, between View Point and Tabarin Peninsula, discovered by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1901-04 and named for Lt. Samuel A. Duse.
Erebus and Terror Gulf
Erebus and Terror Gulf is a gulf of the Weddell Sea at the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, named after Ross's ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.