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Salmon Bay (Antarctica)

Coordinates: 66°8′S 134°5′E / 66.133°S 134.083°E / -66.133; 134.083
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Not to be confused with Davies Bay.

Salmon Bay is a bay about 12 miles (19 km) wide at the entrance between Cape Cesney and Lewis Island in Antarctica. It was discovered from the Aurora by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1910–14) under Douglas Mawson, and named Davis Bay by Mawson for Captain John King Davis, master of the Aurora and second-in-command of the expedition.

In June 2017, the official name as recongised by the New Zealand Geographic Board was altered to Salmon Bay.[1]

References

  1. ^ "NZGB decisions – June 2017". New Zealand Geographic Board. 22 June 2017.

66°8′S 134°5′E / 66.133°S 134.083°E / -66.133; 134.083


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