Markham 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 ...
wide, lying between
Ekelöf Point and
Hamilton Point on the east side of
James Ross Island, Antarctica. It was possibly first seen by a British expedition under
James Clark Ross, who explored this area in 1842–43, but was first charted by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under
Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for
Sir Clements Markham
Sir Clements Robert Markham (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Society's president fo ...
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References
Bays of James Ross Island
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