Wohlschlag Bay () is a large
bay indenting the western side of
Ross Island,
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 cont ...
, and lying between
Harrison Bluff and
Cape Royds
Cape Royds is a dark rock cape forming the western extremity of Ross Island, facing on McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition (1901–1904) and named for Lieutenant Charles Royds, Royal Navy, who acted as meteor ...
. It was first charted by the
Discovery Expedition
The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–18 ...
under
Robert Falcon Scott
Captain Robert Falcon Scott, , (6 June 1868 – c. 29 March 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the ''Discovery'' expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated ''Terra Nov ...
, 1901–1904, then named by the
Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1964 for
Donald E. Wohlschlag, professor of biology at
Stanford University, who outfitted the biology laboratories on the USNS Eltanin and at
McMurdo Station.
Romanes Beach
Romanes Beach is a beach on the north shore of Wohlschlag Bay, just south of
Harrison Bluff. It was mapped by a party of the
New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition The New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) describes a series of scientific explorations of the continent Antarctica. The expeditions were notably active throughout the 1950s and 1960s.
Features named by the expeditions 1957 ...
(NZGSAE), 1958–59, landed there by the . It was named by the
New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee (NZ-APC) is an adjudicating committee established to authorize the naming of features in the Ross Dependency on the Antarctic continent. It is composed of the members of the New Zealand Geographic Board p ...
(NZ-APC) for
W. Romanes, mountaineer assistant with the expedition.
Maumee Bight
The southern part of the bay is formed by Maumee Bight, a long
bight
The word is derived from Old English ''byht'' (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”). In modern English, bight may refer to:
* Bight (geography), recess of a coast, bay, or other curved feature
* Bight (knot), a curved section, slack part, or loo ...
between
Rocky Point and
Micou Point. In association with the names of expedition ships grouped on this island, it was named after , a tanker that made at least 12 Antarctic deployments to the
Ross Sea
The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who ...
from 1969–70 to 1984–85.
Alcorta Rocks
On the east side of the Maumee Bight are the Alcorta Rocks, a
nunatak east-northeast of Rocky Point. The feature rises to about and is distinctive because three
ridges radiate from the center. The rocks were named by US-ACAN in 2000 for
Jesse J. Alcorta, a year-round support employee with eight field seasons at
McMurdo Station from 1992–93.
AADC
References
Bays of Ross Island
{{RossIsland-geo-stub