False Bay (Livingston Island)
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 View from the Huntress Glacier over False Bay with Deception Island in the background |
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 42 '58 " S , 60 ° 21' 58" W | |
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| length | 6.5 km | |
| Tributaries | Charity Glacier , Huntress Glacier , Peschtera Glacier , Ruen Icefall | |
The False Bay ( English for False Bay is) a bay on the south coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . Your entrance will be marked by Barnard Point and Miers Bluff .
The American navigator Nathaniel Palmer drove into this bay in thick fog in November 1820, mistakenly assuming that it was the neighboring South Bay . This incident gave the bay its name.
Web links
- False Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- False Bay on geographic.org (English)