Sherratt Bay
| Sherratt Bay | ||
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| Waters | Bransfield Street | |
| Land mass | King George Island , South Shetland Islands | |
| Geographical location | 62 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ S , 57 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Crab Creek | |
The Sherrat Bay is a bay on the south coast of King George Iceland in the South Shetland Islands . It lies between Cape Melville and Penguin Island .
The bay has been known to seal hunters since the 1820s. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1960 after Richard Sherratt (1774-unknown), captain of the Robben catcher Lady Trowbridge from Liverpool , who on 25 December 1820 at the Cape Melville wrecked .
Web links
- Sherrat Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Sherrat Bay on geographic.org (English)