False Bay (Livingston Island)

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Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
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False Bay from Orpheus Gate, with Deception Island in the background
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring South Bay Powell-Chart-1822.png
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring South Bay
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Topographic map of Livingston Island

False Bay ( 62°43′S60°22′W / 62.717°S 60.367°W / -62.717; -60.367 Coordinates: 62°43′S60°22′W / 62.717°S 60.367°W / -62.717; -60.367 ) is a bay 4 miles (6.4 km) long, which lies between Barnard Point and Miers Bluff on the south side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The glaciers Hurd Ice Cap, Huntress, Ruen Icefall, Peshtera and Charity feed the bay.

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Barnard Point

Barnard Point is a headland which marks the south-east side of the entrance to False Bay on the south side of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is situated on Rozhen Peninsula, 1.5 km (1 mi) north-north-west of Botev Point and 6.6 km (4 mi) south-east of Miers Bluff.

Miers Bluff

Miers Bluff is the point forming the southwest extremity of Hurd Peninsula, the southeast side of the entrance to South Bay and the northwest side of the entrance to False Bay, on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name "Elephant Point", given by Robert Fildes in 1820–22 to another feature, has been for a number of years applied in error to this bluff. It is now approved as originally intended and a new name has been substituted for the feature here described.

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It was probably first entered and charted by Captain Nathaniel Palmer in November 1820, and was likely named because of the possibility in thick weather of confusion between this feature and nearby South Bay, where Johnsons Dock was frequented by the early sealers. [1]

Nathaniel Palmer American explorer

Nathaniel Brown Palmer was an American seal hunter, explorer, sailing captain, and ship designer. He gave his name to Palmer Land, which he explored in 1820 on his Hero sloop. He was born in Stonington, Connecticut and was a descendant of Walter Palmer, one of the town's founders.

South Bay (Livingston Island) bay on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

South Bay is a 11.6 kilometres (7.2 mi) wide bay indenting for 12.5 kilometres (7.8 mi) the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The bay is lying northwest of False Bay and east of Walker Bay, and is entered between Hannah Point and Miers Bluff. The glaciers Kamchiya, Pimpirev, Perunika, Contell, Johnsons and Hurd Ice Cap feed the bay.

Johnsons Dock cove

Johnsons Dock is a sheltered 500 m wide cove indenting for 900 m the northwest coast of Hurd Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. It is part of South Bay entered north of Ballester Point. Surmounted by Charrúa Ridge on the northeast. The cove was frequented by early 19th century sealers.

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Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands)

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Cape Shirreff

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McFarlane Strait

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Renier Point

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Williams Point

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Hurd Peninsula

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Hero Bay Bay of the South Shetland Islands

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Walker Bay (Livingston Island)

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Blythe Bay bay

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Essex Point headland in South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

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Window Island

Window Island is a small ice-free island off the north coast of Ray Promontory in the northwest of Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The island has a surface area of 23 hectares and rises to 72 m (236 ft). It was known to the early 19th century sealers operating on Byers Peninsula.

Eddystone Rocks (South Shetland Islands)

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