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Bay of the South Shetland Islands
Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Hero Bay from
Miziya Peak .
Topographic map of Livingston Island.
Hero Bay (
62°31′S 60°27′W / 62.517°S 60.450°W / -62.517; -60.450 ) is a bay, 17 nautical miles (31 km) wide, which indents for 6 nautical miles (11 km) the northern side of
Livingston Island between
Cape Shirreff and
Williams Point , in the
South Shetland Islands . The glaciers
Saedinenie Snowfield ,
Tundzha ,
Berkovitsa ,
Medven and
Urdoviza feed the bay.
The name "
Blythe Bay ", originally applied to a small bay on the southeast side of
Desolation Island on
George Powell's chart of 1822 published by
Richard Holmes Laurie , was erroneously transferred to this bay in the 1930s. This error has now been rectified and a new name approved for the feature here described. Hero Bay is named for the
American sloop Hero , under Captain
Nathaniel B. Palmer , which was one of the vessels of the Pendleton sealing fleet from
Stonington, Connecticut , which visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21.
Maps
Chart of South Shetland including Coronation Island, &c. from the exploration of the sloop Dove in the years 1821 and 1822 by George Powell Commander of the same. Scale ca. 1:200000. London: Laurie, 1822.
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map No. 5657. DOS 610 – W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
L.L. Ivanov et al.,
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map,
Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2010.
ISBN
978-954-92032-9-5 (First edition 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4 )
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
References
This article incorporates
public domain material from
"Hero Bay" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey .