Erebus and Terror Golf
| Erebus and Terror Golf | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Antarctic Peninsula , Joinville Islands and James Ross Island | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 55 ′ 0 ″ S , 56 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Islands | Lonely Rock , Vega Island | |
| Tributaries | Coley Glacier | |
The Erebus and Terror Gulf is a bay on the southeast side of the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is bounded to the northeast by the Joinville Islands and to the southwest by James Ross Island .
The bay is named after the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror , with which the British polar explorer James Clark Ross navigated the waters around this bay from 1842 to 1843.
Web links
- Erebus and Terror Gulf in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Erebus and Terror Gulf on geographic.org (English)