Bone Bay
| Bone Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Strait , Southern Ocean | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 40 ′ S , 59 ° 3 ′ W | |
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| width | 16 km | |
| Islands | Boyer Rocks , Canso Rocks , Islotes Laura , Whaleback Rocks | |
| Tributaries | Russell West Glacier | |
The Bone Bay , a rectangular bay on the northwest coast of Trinity Peninsula in Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It stretches between Notter Point and Cape Roquemaurel .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped them in 1948. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1953 after Thomas Maine Bone (* 1798), midshipman on the Brigg Williams under Captain Edward Bransfield when exploring the South Shetland Islands and the Bransfield Strait in 1953 1820.
Web links
- Bone Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bone Bay on geographic.org (English)