Hero Bay
| Hero Bay | ||
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 Map of Livingston Island with Hero Bay |
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| Waters | Drake Street | |
| Land mass | Livingston Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 33 ′ S , 60 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| width | 27 km | |
| depth | 10 km | |
| Islands | Chapman Rocks , Craggy Island , Desolation Island , Dunbar Islands Indian Rocks , Koynare Rocks , Lynx Rocks , Miladinovi Islets , Wood Island | |
| Tributaries | Saedinenie snow field , Tundscha glacier | |
The Hero Bay is a large bay on the north coast of Livingston Island in the archipelago of the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Cape Shirreff on the northern tip of the John Paul II Peninsula and Williams Point on the northeastern end of the island.
The name Blythe Bay , actually intended for a small bay on the southeast coast of Desolation Island since 1822 , was mistakenly transferred to the bay described here in 1930. The name that is used today is named after the Sloop Hero , with which Nathaniel Palmer visited the South Shetland Islands between 1820 and 1821.
Web links
- Hero Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hero Bay on geographic.org (English)