Gibson Bay (Antarctica)

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Gibson Bay
MODIS satellite image with Joinville Island (center) and the bays Gibson Bay (left) and Haddon Bay (right) separated on the south coast by Mount Alexander

MODIS satellite image with Joinville Island (center) and the bays Gibson Bay (left) and Haddon Bay (right) separated on the south coast by Mount Alexander
Waters Firth of Tay
Land mass Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica )
Geographical location 63 ° 18 ′ 21 ″  S , 55 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  W Coordinates: 63 ° 18 ′ 21 ″  S , 55 ° 52 ′ 53 ″  W
Gibson Bay (Antarctic Peninsula)
Gibson Bay

The Gibson Bay is a small bay just west of Mount Alexander on the south coast of the West Antarctic Joinville Island , where the Active Sound and the Firth of Tay meet.

The bay was sighted and roughly mapped on January 8, 1893 by Captain Thomas Robertson (1854-1918), skipper of the whaler Active in the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893). The namesake is unknown. In Chile , the bay has been known as Bahía Oliver since 1947 , named after the Chilean geologist Carlos Oliver Schneider (1899–1949).

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