Chatham Harbour (former name ''States Bay'', es, Puerto de San Joseph, Puerto de San José) is the large bay indenting the central part of Weddell Island in the

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. It is entered east of Beacon Point and west of

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. The 3 km wide bay extends 5 km in southeast direction, this part of the feature forming an anchorage named Bald Road, and north of Clay Point turning for 10 km in southwest direction. Chatham Harbour is centred at . States Cove (former names ''States Harbour'', ''Hussey Harbour'') is an estuary on the southeast side of Chatham Harbour, centred at .States Cove.
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Maps

* ''The Falkland Islands''. Scale 1:401280 map. London: Edward Stanford, 1901 * Falkland Islands Explorer Map. Scale 1:365000. Ocean Explorer Maps, 2007 * Falklands Topographic Map Series. Scale 1:50000, 29 sheets. DOS 453, 1961-1979
Falkland Islands.
Scale 1:643000 Map. DOS 906. Edition 3-OS, 1998
''Map 500k--xm20-4''.
1:500000 map of Weddell Island and part of West Falkland. Russian Army Maps (for the world)

Scale 1:1500000 chart. Gps Nautical Charts, 2010
Illustrated Map of Weddell Island

Gallery

Chatham-Harbour-Weddell-Island-18-century-map.png, A post 1770 large scale, southeast-up map of Chatham Harbour (''Puerto de San Joseph'' in the title); the illustration shows a north view of the harbour entrance marked by Bald Island (island “A”), with Mount Weddell prominent in the background Falkland-Islands-Chart-Charles-Barnard-1815.png, States Bay, States Harbour and Swan Island (present Chatham Harbour, States Cove and Weddell Island) on a pre 1829 Falklands map by Charles Barnard Falkland-Islands-Map-1841-Fragment.png, 1841 Falkland Islands map by John Arrowsmith, fragment featuring Swan Island, States Harbour and Great Harbour (present Weddell Island, States Cove and Gull Harbour) Weddell-Island-Map.png, Map of Weddell Island

Notes

References

* B. Stonehouse (ed.). ''Encyclopedia of Antarctica and the Southern Oceans''. Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. 404 pp. * C.H. Barnard
''A Narrative of the Sufferings and Adventures of Capt. Charles H. Barnard, in a Recent Voyage Round the World, Including an Account of His Residence for Two Years on An Uninhabited Island''.
New York: J.P. Callender, 1836 * P.P. King and R. Fitzroy
''The South America Pilot''.
''Part II. From the Rio de la Plata to the Bay of Panama, including Magellan Strait, the Falkland, and Galapagos Islands''. Fifth Edition. London: Printed for the Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, 1860. pp. 116–118

External links

Weddell Island Official Website

Weddell Island from space.
NASA Johnson Space Center, 30 April 2005 {{Falkland Islands topics, state=collapsed Bays of the Falkland Islands