Schokalsky Bay () is the easternmost

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 ...

Alexander Island Alexander Island, which is also known as Alexander I Island, Alexander I Land, Alexander Land, Alexander I Archipelago, and Zemlja Alexandra I, is the largest island of Antarctica. It lies in the Bellingshausen Sea west of Palmer Land, Antarc ...

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, 9 nautical miles (17 km) wide at its entrance and indenting 6 nautical miles (11 km) lying between Mount Calais and

Cape Brown Cape Brown is a prominent ice-covered cape north-northeast of the summit of Mount Nicholas (Mount Nicholas being the northern extremity of the Douglas Range), marking the eastern side of the entrance to Schokalsky Bay on the northeast coast o ...

along the east coast of Alexander Island whilst adjacent to the

George VI Ice Shelf The George VI Ice Shelf () is an extensive ice shelf that occupies George VI Sound which separates Alexander Island from Palmer Land in Antarctica. The ice shelf extends from Ronne Entrance, at the southwest end of the sound, to Niznik Island ...

George VI Sound George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/ fault depression, 300 miles (483 km) long and mainly covered by a permanent ice shelf. It ...

Hampton Glacier Hampton Glacier is a glacier lying between Mount Hahn and Mount Nicholas in the northeast part of Alexander Island, Antarctica. It is long and wide, and flows north-northeast along the west wall of the Douglas Range into Schokalsky Bay. The ...

discharges tremendous amounts of ice into the head of Schokalsky Bay at a steep gradient causing the ice there to be extremely broken and irregular, and discourages use of this bay and

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as an inland sledging route onto northeast Alexander Island. The bay was first sighted from a distance in 1909 and roughly charted by the

French Antarctic Expedition The French Antarctic Expedition is any of several French expeditions in Antarctica. First expedition In 1772, Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec and the naturalist Jean Guillaume Bruguière sailed to the Antarctic region in search of the fable ...

under Charcot who, thinking it to be a strait, gave the name " Detroit Schokalsky" after

Yuly Shokalsky Yuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky (russian: Юлий Михайлович Шокальский; October 17, 1856 in Saint Petersburg – March 26, 1940 in Leningrad) was a Russian oceanographer, cartographer, and geographer. Career A grandson of An ...

, a Russian

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and

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. Charcot followed the spelling Schokalsky used by the man himself when writing in Roman script. The coast in this vicinity was photographed from the air and this bay roughly charted in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition, but Charcot's "Detroit Schokalsky" was not identified. Surveys by

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in 1948 identified this bay as the feature originally named by Charcot.

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Bays of Antarctica Bodies of water of Alexander Island {{AlexanderIsland-geo-stub

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