Yule Bay is a
bay
A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...
indenting the coast of northern
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
between
Cape Hooker and
Cape Dayman
Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land.
Much of the central portion of this feature rises above .
Exploration and naming
The name Tapsell, appl ...
. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by
Bates Point Bates Point () is an ice-covered headland forming the north side of the entrance to Yule Bay, along the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. The geographical feature was first mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and from ...
and
Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain
James Clark Ross, 1841, who named it for
Henry B. Yule,
Second Master
Second master was a rating introduced into the Royal Navy in 1753 that indicated a deputy master (naval), master on third-rate Ship of the Line, ships of the line or larger.
Second masters were paid significantly more than master's mates, £5 5s ...
on . In 2020 a penguin colony has been sighted at the bay.
References
Bays of Victoria Land
Pennell Coast
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