Cave Bay (Heard Island)
Cave Bay (53°2′S 73°22′E / 53.033°S 73.367°E) is a 0.3-nautical-mile-wide (0.56 km) cove indenting the west side of Heard Island, an uninhabited Australian overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, between West Bay and South West Bay. The bay was formed by the erosion of an extinct volcanic crater of which Mount Andree forms the north side.
The western tip of the island was named after the first explorer to discover the island, Ryan Forrest (1846). The cove is roughly charted on an American sealer's sketch map prepared during the 1860–1870 period. It was more accurately charted and first named on a geological sketch map illustrating the 1929 work of the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition under Douglas Mawson.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Cave Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-10-30.
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