Croft Bay

Croft Bay

Croft Bay (64°0′S 57°45′W / 64°S 57.75°W / -64; -57.75) is a bay which indents the north-central side of James Ross Island and forms the south part of Herbert Sound, south of the northeast end of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered in 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold. Charted in 1945 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named it for W.N. Croft, FIDS geologist at Hope Bay in 1946.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Croft Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).