Erebus Bay
| Erebus Bay | ||
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 Map of Ross Island with Erebus Bay (bottom left) |
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| Waters | McMurdo Sound | |
| Land mass | Ross Island ( Ross Archipelago , Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 77 ° 44 ′ S , 166 ° 31 ′ E | |
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| width | 21 km | |
| Islands | Dellbridge Islands , Turtle Rock , | |
| Tributaries | Erebus glacier or Erebus glacier tongue , Danger Slopes , Pakaru ice falls | |
The Erebus Bay is a 21-km wide bay on the west side of the Antarctic Ross Island . It lies between Cape Evans and the Hut Point Peninsula .
The first explorations of the bay were made by participants of the Discovery Expedition (1901-1904) under the direction of the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott . The name was then given to Scott's second trip to the Antarctic, the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913), whose base camp was on Cape Evans. It is named after Mount Erebus , which towers over the bay. Its namesake, in turn, is the HMS Erebus , one of the two ships on the Antarctic expedition (1839-1843) of the British polar explorer James Clark Ross .
Web links
- Erebus Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Erebus Bay on geographic.org (English)