Salmon Bay is a bay about wide at the entrance between Cape Cesney and Lewis Island in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...

. It was discovered from the ''Aurora'' by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1910–14) under Douglas Mawson, and named ''Davis Bay'' by Mawson for Captain

John King Davis John King Davis (19 February 1884 – 8 May 1967) was an English-born Australian explorer and navigator notable for his work captaining exploration ships in Antarctic waters as well as for establishing meteorological stations on Macquar ...

, master of the ''Aurora'' and second-in-command of the expedition. In June 2017, the official name as recognised by the New Zealand Geographic Board was altered to ''Salmon Bay''. The 11 km-long Salmon Stream flows from

Salmon Glacier The Salmon Glacier is a glacier located ~ north of Stewart, British Columbia, and Hyder, Alaska, just on the Canadian side of the border. The glacier, one of hundreds in the Boundary Ranges, is notable for its major potential as a natural ha ...

into Salmon Bay.

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* Bays of Wilkes Land {{WilkesLand-geo-stub