Yule Bay () is a bay indenting the coast of northern

Victoria Land Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78th parallel south, 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Ant ...

between Cape Hooker and

Cape Dayman Tapsell Foreland () is a borad, mostly snow-covered foreland jutting into the sea between Yule Bay and Smith Inlet, northern Victoria Land. Much of the central portion of this feature rises above . Exploration and naming The name Tapsell, app ...

. An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point.

Exploration and name

Discovered by Captain

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, 1841, who named it for

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on . In 2020, a

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colony was seen at the bay.

Location

Yule Bay opens into the Pacific Ocean to the south of

Davis Ice Piedmont Davis Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont about long and wide, located along the north side of Missen Ridge on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The name ''Cape Davis'', after John E. Davis, Second Master of ...

and

Missen Ridge Davis Ice Piedmont () is an ice piedmont about long and wide, located along the north side of Missen Ridge on the north coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The name ''Cape Davis'', after John E. Davis, Second Master of ...

. Chapman Glacier flows into the bay from the west. O'Hara Glacier enters from the south. Ackroyd Point to the south and Bates Point at the end of Missen Ridge define the inner entrance of the bay. Cape Hooker and

define the outer entrance. The

Lyall Islands Lyall Islands () is a group of four islands, Unger Island, Surgeon Island, Novosad Island and Hughes Island, lying just outside the entrance to Yule Bay, Victoria Land, Antarctica. Exploration and naming The Lyall Islands were discovered by Cap ...

are to the east, across the outer entrance.

Features

Bates Point

. Ice-covered point forming the north side of the entrance to Yule Bay. Mapped by the

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(USGS) from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by the United States

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(US-ACAN) for Lieutenant Thomas R. Bates, United States Navy, Flight Surgeon and Medical Officer at

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, 1964.

Chapman Glacier

. Glacier at the head of Yule Bay. Named by the

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(ANARE) for A. Chapman, a member of the helicopter team in this vicinity during the AN ARE (Thala Dan), 1962, led by Phillip Law.

O'Hara Glacier

. A glacier just west of Ackroyd Point, flowing northwest into the south side of Yule Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-63. Named by US-ACAN for Norbert W. O'Hara, a member of the United States ArmyRP party which conducted studies of the Ross Ice Shelf, 1965-66.

Ackroyd Point

. A point situated just east of O'Hara Glacier along the south side of the inner portion of Yule Bay. Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy air photos, 1960-62. Named by US-ACAN for Lieutenant Frederick W. Ackroyd, MC, United States Navy, Medical Officer with the winter party at the Naval Air Facility at McMurdo Sound, 1958.

References

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