Sherratt 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 ...

between Cape Melville and Penguin Island on the south side of King George Island, in the

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. The existence of the bay was known and roughly charted by sealers working in the area in the early 1820s. It was named by the

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(UK-APC) in 1960 for Richard Sherratt, Master of the Lady Trowbridge from

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which was wrecked off Cape Melville on December 25, 1820. Sherratt occupied his time until rescued by making an inaccurate but historically interesting map of the South Shetland Islands.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Bays of King George Island (South Shetland Islands) {{KingGeorgeIslandAQ-geo-stub