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Beaumont Bay () is an ice-filled reentrant on the west side of the
Beaumont Bay () is an ice-filled reentrant on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf
The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...
between Young Head Young Head () is a prominent rock headland, 350 meters high, marking the north side of the entrance to Beaumont Bay on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for CWO Victor Young, U.S. Navy, me ...
and Harris Point Harris Point () is a rocky coastal point along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Located south of Young Head at the south side of Beaumont Bay, it was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Herman D. Harris, a chie ...
, into which Dickey Glacier Dickey Glacier () is a glacier long, flowing north along the east side of the Surveyors Range to enter Beaumont Bay, Ross Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain Willie M. Dickey, U.S. Navy, commander of ...
flows. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition
The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–18 ...
(1901–04) and named for Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont
Admiral Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, (19 May 1847 – 20 June 1922) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth.
Naval career
Beaumont joined the Royal Navy as a boy in 1860 and was engaged in operations in Malaya b ...
, Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...
, an Arctic explorer who took a special interest in this expedition.
See also
*Howard-Williams Point Howard-Williams Point () is a prominent point extending into the Ross Ice Shelf, located just north of Beaumont Bay, north east of the Surveyors Range, Antarctica. It was named in honor of Clive Howard-Williams, an ecologist who led several rese ...
References
* Bays of the Ross Dependency Shackleton Coast {{ShackletonCoast-geo-stub