Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...

between Cape Hooker and

Cape Dayman Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above . Exploration and naming The name Tapsell, appl ...

. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain

James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic, participating in two expeditions led by his uncle John Ross, and four led by William Edwa ...

, 1841, who named it for Henry B. Yule,

Second Master Second master was a rating introduced into the Royal Navy in 1753 that indicated a deputy master (naval), master on third-rate Ship of the Line, ships of the line or larger. Second masters were paid significantly more than master's mates, £5 5s ...

on . In 2020 a penguin colony has been sighted at the bay.

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Bays of Victoria Land Pennell Coast {{PennellCoast-geo-stub