Cemetery Bay
| Cemetery Bay | ||
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| Waters | Borge Bay | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ 25 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 36 ″ W | |
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The Cemetery Bay (English for cemetery bay ) is a shallow bay on the east coast of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . In the south-western part of Borge Bay it lies below the Orwell Glacier .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1974 after the graves of whalers on the east bank of the bay.
Web links
- Cemetery Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Cemetery Bay on geographic.org (English)