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Exasperation Inlet
Exasperation Inlet is a large ice-filled inlet, 16 miles wide, on the Oscar II Coast of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula, between Foyn Point and Cape Disappointment; named by FIDS in 1947-1949 after disturbed shelf ice hampered sledging.
False Bay
False Bay: name of two bays, the 4-mi bay between Barnard Point and Miers Bluff on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands (also Falsa, bahía), and the 41-km-wide Valsbaai at South Africa's Cape Peninsula; both named for confusion with neighboring bays.
Flandres Bay
Flandres Bay (Baie des Flandres), a glacial bay between Cape Renard and Cape Willems on the Danco Coast, Antarctic Peninsula; charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition in February 1898, 16 km deep, poorly charted, marine-only tourist site.
Foster, Port
Port Foster is the sea-flooded volcanic caldera forming the landlocked harbor of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, entered through Neptune's Bellows; about 6 × 10 km, up to 190 m deep, named for Capt. Henry Foster (1829).
Franklin Bay
Franklin Bay, a V-shaped bay of the southeastern Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories between Cape Bathurst and Cape Parry; also Lady Franklin Bay on Ellesmere Island, site of the Greely expedition.
Gardner Inlet
Gardner Inlet, also called Bahía Gardner or Ensenada Gardner, is an ice-filled inlet between Cape Adams and Cape Schlossbach on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica, discovered by RARE in 1947 and named for physicist Irvine Clifton Gardner.
Gibson Bay
Gibson Bay, Antarctica: a bay at 63°19'S 55°52'W near Joinville Island on the Antarctic Peninsula's Weddell Sea side, a UK-approved name listed in the Australian and U.S. Antarctic gazetteers; distinct from Gibson Bay, Nunavut.
Golfe du Morbihan (Kerguelen)
The Golfe du Morbihan is a large, almost fully enclosed natural harbor on the east side of the Kerguelen Islands, sheltering the French research station Port-aux-Français.
Guba Gusinaya
Guba Gusinaya (Губа Гусиная, "Goose Bay") is a Siberian arctic bay listed at 71°45′N 149°30′E in the Pub. 183 Northern Coast of Russia Pilot gazetteer; guba is the Pomor term for a river-mouth bay.
Gulf of Boothia
Gulf of Boothia, a gulf in Nunavut, Canada, between Boothia Peninsula and Baffin Island and Melville Peninsula. Discovered and named by John Ross's 1829-1833 expedition for sponsor Felix Booth; site of the first distinct localization of the north magnetic pole.
Hadley Bay
Hadley Bay (baie Hadley) is an official bay on Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada, at 73°N 110°W, named in 1982; it gives its name to a 2013 Geological Survey of Canada tectonic assemblage map.
Hamburg Bay
Hamburg Bay (German: Hamburghafen) is a bay on the northwest coast of Anvers Island, Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica, just south of Bonnier Point at about 64°30'S, 63°57'W. Discovered and named in 1874 by Dallmann's German expedition for the port of Hamburg.
Hero Bay
Hero Bay is a 17-mile-wide bay indenting the north side of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, between Cape Shirreff and Williams Point; named for the sloop Hero of Nathaniel B. Palmer's 1820-21 sealing fleet.
Hilton Inlet
Hilton Inlet, also Hilton Bay or Ensenada Hilton, is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Darlington and Cape Knowles, discovered by USAS in 1940 and named for surveyor Donald C. Hilton.
Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay, also Bahía Hughes, is a bay between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray on the Danco Coast, west Antarctic Peninsula, named for sealer Edward Hughes (1824-25) and site of the first recorded Antarctic mainland landing by John Davis, 7 February 1821.
Huon Bay
Huon Bay is a shallow Antarctic bay about 8 miles wide between Cape Ducorps and Cape Legoupil on the northwest coast of Louis Philippe Peninsula, at 63°23'S 58°00'W, named by d'Urville's 1837-40 expedition for Félix Huon de Kermadec.
Kandalaksha Gulf
Kandalaksha Gulf (Кандалакшский залив), also Kandalaksha Bay, is the northwesternmost gulf of Russia's White Sea, 185 km long with depths to 350 m, a Ramsar wetland hosting half the White Sea common eider population, the Kandalakshsky zapovednik, and ports including Kandalaksha and the Vitino oil terminal.
Keller Inlet
Keller Inlet is an ice-filled inlet between Cape Little and Cape Fiske on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctic Peninsula, at 74°16'S 61°10'W, named by Finn Ronne after Louis Keller of Beaumont, Texas.
King George Bay
King George Bay is a bay indenting the south coast of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, between Lions Rump and Turret Point; named 24 January 1820 by Bransfield's expedition for the reigning British sovereign.
Kola Bay (Кольский залив)
Kola Bay, also known as Kola Inlet, is a fjord-shaped inlet of the Barents Sea in northwest Russia whose ice-free water hosts the city of Murmansk.
Lallemand Fjord
Lallemand Fjord, the largest embayment on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula (66°50′–67°20′S), named by Charcot's 1909 expedition for Charles Lallemand; hosts the Müller Ice Shelf and a key Holocene paleoclimate sediment record showing deglaciation before 8000 yr BP, a mid-Holocene optimum, and a Little Ice Age ice shelf advance.
Larsen Inlet
Larsen Inlet, also Ensenada Larsen, is an ice-filled inlet between Sobral Peninsula and Cape Longing on the Nordenskjöld Coast, Graham Land, Antarctica; charted by C.A. Larsen in 1893, renamed after a 1947 FIDS survey, its ice shelf collapsed in 1989.
Lehrke Inlet
Lehrke Inlet, also Lehrke Bay, is an ice-filled inlet on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica, between Cape Boggs and Cape Sharbonneau, discovered by the USAS in 1940 and named for Lester Lehrke of the Bear.
Liddon Gulf
Liddon Gulf, also Kangikhokyoak, is a 64-mile inlet on the southwest coast of Melville Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, named in 1820 by Parry for Lieutenant Matthew Liddon of HMS Griper.
Lystad Bay
Lystad Bay: bay 2.5 mi wide on the west side of Horseshoe Island, NE Marguerite Bay, Antarctica; named for Capt. Isak Lystad, first surveyed 1936-37 by the BGLE, site of the Turkish Science Base.
Mackenzie Bay
Mackenzie Bay, the Arctic bay off the Mackenzie River mouth in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (Yukon/NWT), brackish, sediment-rich, a beluga management zone; also an Antarctic bay on the Amery Ice Shelf.
Marguerite Bay (landform)
Marguerite Bay, a large bay on the western Antarctic Peninsula at 68°30′S 68°30′W, discovered and named by Charcot in January 1909; known for raised beaches, a 1,600 m deep trough, Rothera Research Station, and the Wordie Ice Shelf.
Mason Inlet
Mason Inlet is an Antarctic inlet on the Black Coast, Palmer Land, between Cape Herdman and Cape Mackintosh at 72°53'S 60°15'W, named for FIDS surveyor Douglas Percy Mason and fed by Clowes and Watkins glaciers.
Maxwell Bay
Maxwell Bay (Fildes Bay), a U-shaped fjord between King George and Nelson Islands, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; named by Weddell after Francis Maxwell; hosts Chilean, Russian, Korean, and other research stations.
Melville Bay
Melville Bay is a bay on the northwest Greenland coast, named by Sir John Ross in 1818 and protected since 1977 as a nature reserve for narwhal and polar bear habitat, with only quota-regulated traditional narwhal hunting permitted.