Adelaide Anchorage () is an area of safe anchorage lying west of Avian Island, off the south end of

Adelaide Island Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mount ...

. It is the anchorage normally used by ships visiting Adelaide research station. Charted by members of the RRS ''John Biscoe'' and the

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against F ...

Hydrographic Survey Unit Hydrographics may refer to: *Hydrography, the measurement of physical characteristics of waters and marginal land *Hydrographics (printing), a printing technique for three-dimensional objects * Hydrographic Department, UK agency for providing hydr ...

in January–March 1962.

References

* Ports and harbours of Graham Land Landforms of Adelaide Island {{AdelaideIsland-geo-stub