Admiralty Bay

Admiralty Bay

Admiralty Bay (coord|62|10|S|058|25|W|) 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." [United States Hydrographic Office. "South America Pilot", Government Printing Office, 1916.]

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.

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