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Hughes Bay is a bay lying between
Cape Sterneck
Cape Sterneck () is a bold, black cliff on a projecting point forming the west extremity of Chavdar Peninsula on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It is situated on the north side of the entrance to Hughes Bay and the west side of the ...
and
Cape Murray along the west coast of the
Antarctic Peninsula.
[ It is wide and lies south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of ]Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula
Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula is the heavily glaciated peninsula projecting 11 km in northwest direction from Danco Coast on the west side of Antarctic Peninsula. Bounded by Hughes Bay to the northeast and Charlotte Bay to the south, and separat ...
, indenting the Danco Coast
The Danco Coast () is the portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Sterneck and Cape Renard. This coast was explored in January and February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Adrien de Gerlache, who named it ...
on the west side of Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee an ...
for .
History
The name has appeared on maps for over 100 years, and commemorates Edward Hughes, master of the ''Sprightly'', a sealing vessel owned by the London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary dow ...
whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons
Samuel Enderby & Sons was a whaling and sealing company based in London, England, founded circa 1775 by Samuel Enderby (1717–1797). The company was significant in the history of whaling in the United Kingdom, not least for encouraging their ...
, which explored in this area in 1824–25.[
Hughes Bay may have been site of the first landing on the Antarctic mainland, by sealers from the U.S. sealing vessel ''Cecilia'' under Captain John Davis on February 7, 1821.Hughes Bay.]
SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.
Glaciers
The glaciers Tumba Ice Cap
Tumba Ice Cap ( bg, ледник Тумба, lednik Tumba, ) is the ice cap covering the western half of Chavdar Peninsula on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula
The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tie ...
, Sikorsky, Mouillard, Cayley, Gregory, Breguet, Blériot, Agalina, Krapets and Zimzelen feed the bay.
See also
*Roget Rocks Roget Rocks () is a small group of rocks 4 nautical miles (7 km) southwest of Spring Point in Hughes Bay, Graham Land. Surveyed by K.V. Blaiklock of Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).
It is named after Peter Mark Roget
Peter Ma ...
Maps
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
References
Bays of Graham Land
Danco Coast
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