Hill Bay
| Hill Bay | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Land mass | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ S , 62 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 3 km | |
| depth | 8 kilometers | |
| Tributaries | Grigorow Glacier , Laënnec Glacier , Mitew Glacier | |
The Hill Bay is a 3-km wide and 8 km deep bay on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago . It lies between Spallanzani Point and Mitchell Point .
The hydrographic department of the British Admiralty carried out an initial rough survey between 1951 and 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1957 after Leonard Charles Hill (1908-2003), participant in the British Discovery Investigations on board the RRS William Scoresby from January to February 1931 and on the RRS Discovery II between 1931 and 1939.
Web links
- Hill Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hill Bay on geographic.org (English)