Howard Bay () is a wide body of water 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 ...

, lying between

Byrd Head Byrd Head is a conspicuous, rocky headland on the Mawson Coast 1 mi southeast of Colbeck Archipelago, just west of Howard Bay. Discovered in February 1931 by the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Doug ...

to the west and

Ufs Island Ufs Island () is a rocky island wide, lying in the east part of Howard Bay, Antarctica, just north of the Lachal Bluffs, and about west of Allison Bay. Cape Simpson, the north end of this island, was discovered by the British Australian New Zeal ...

and the

Lachal Bluffs The Lachal Bluffs () are a group of rocky headlands located just south of Ufs Island and east of Howard Bay, and about west of Allison Bay, on the Mawson Coast of Mac. Robertson Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from ...

to the east. It was discovered in February 1931 by the

British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition The British Australian (and) New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) was a research expedition into Antarctica between 1929 and 1931, involving two voyages over consecutive Austral summers. It was a British Commonwealth initiative, dr ...

under

Douglas Mawson Sir Douglas Mawson OBE FRS FAA (5 May 1882 – 14 October 1958) was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer, and academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Sir Ernest Shackleton, he was a key expedition leader during ...

, and was named by him after A. Howard, the expedition's hydrologist.

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Bays of Mac. Robertson Land {{MacRobertsonLand-geo-stub