Square Bay
| Square Bay | ||
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| Waters | Marguerite Bay and Bourgeois Fjord | |
| Land mass | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 67 ° 50 '26 " S , 67 ° 0' 24" W | |
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| Islands | Broken Island , Center Island , Horseshoe Island , Reluctant Island | |
| Tributaries | Forbes Glacier , Kom Glacier , Swithinbank Glacier , Torlegård Glacier | |
The Square Bay is a bay with a square ( English square ) shape and a diameter of around 15 km on the Fallières coast of Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula . It lies between Nicholl Head in the north and Camp Point in the south. A large part of the entrance to the bay is occupied by Horseshoe Island , the approaches to a narrow southern strait to Marguerite Bay and an even narrower strait in the northwest to the Bourgeois Fjord .
The bay was mapped and named descriptively by participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1934) led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill .
Web links
- Square Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Square Bay on geographic.org