Haddon Bay
| Haddon Bay | ||
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 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 |
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| Waters | Firth of Tay | |
| Land mass | Joinville Island ( Joinville Islands , West Antarctica ) | |
| Geographical location | 63 ° 18 '3 " S , 55 ° 45' 6" W | |
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The Haddon Bay is a bay just east of Mount Alexander on the south coast of the West Antarctic Joinville Island .
The bay was discovered on January 8, 1893 by Captain Thomas Robertson (1854-1918), skipper of the whaler Active on the Dundee Whaling Expedition (1892-1893). The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a geodetic survey in 1953. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1956 after the British anthropologist and zoologist Alfred C. Haddon (1855-1940), who to scientific preparations for the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-1904) under the direction of William Speirs Bruce was involved .
Web links
- Haddon Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Haddon Bay on geographic.org (English)