Croft 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 ...
which indents the north-central side of
James Ross Island and forms the southern part of
Herbert Sound, south of the northeastern end of the
Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...
. It was discovered in 1903 by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition under
Otto Nordenskiöld. It was charted in 1945 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), who named it for
W.N. Croft WN may refer to:
* WN postcode area, England
* Southwest Airlines (IATA code WN)
* WeatherNation TV
* White nationalism
* White noise (disambiguation)
* Wikinews, a sister project of Wikipedia
* Willesden TMD, a railway depot in north London, Engla ...
, a FIDS geologist at
Hope Bay in 1946.
References
*
Bays of James Ross Island
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