Croft Bay
| Croft Bay | ||
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| Waters | Herbert Sound | |
| Land mass | James Ross Island ( Ross Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 58 ′ 31 " S , 57 ° 43 ′ 57" W | |
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The Croft Bay is a bay on the north central coast of the West Antarctic James Ross Island . It forms the southern boundary of Herbert Sound south of the north-western end of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The bay was discovered during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) mapped it in 1945 and named it after William Noble Croft (1915–1953), a geologist for the FIDS in Hope Bay in 1946.
Web links
- Croft Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Croft Bay on geographic.org (English)