Curtiss Bay () is a bay about wide, indenting the west coast of

Graham Land Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee ...

between

Cape Sterneck Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Bay ...

and Cape Andreas on the

Davis Coast Davis Coast () is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Kjellman and Cape Sterneck. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advi ...

Location

Curtiss Bay lies on the

on the west side of the

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martin in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica. ...

. It faces

Trinity Island Trinity Island or Île de la Trinité or Isla Trinidad is an island long and wide in the northern part of the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It lies east of Hoseason Island, south of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, and nor ...

across the

Orléans Strait Orléans Strait is a strait running NE-SW and separating Trinity Island and Tower Island from Davis Coast, Antarctic Peninsula. Possibly first seen by Nathaniel B. Palmer, captain of the Hero, on November 18, 1820. Named and outlined in part by ...

Cape Herschel Chavdar Peninsula () is a wide peninsula projecting in northwest direction from Graham Land on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica. Location Chavdar Peninsula lies on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. It is bounded by Curtiss Ba ...

on the Chavdar Peninsula defines the bay's western extremity. The Wright Ice Piedmont is to the southeast, and Lanchester Bay is to the east.

Name

The name ''Bahia Inutil'' (useless bay) appearing on a 1957 Argentine chart is considered misleading; the bay has been used as an anchorage. The bay was renamed by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) an ...

(UK-APC) in 1960 for

Glenn Curtiss Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an American aviation and motorcycling pioneer, and a founder of the U.S. aircraft industry. He began his career as a bicycle racer and builder before moving on to motorcycles. As early a ...

, an American aeronautical engineer who pioneered seaplanes from 1911 onward.

Features

Features of the bay, and nearby features, include:

Cape Andreas

. A cape marking the east side of the entrance to Curtiss Bay. Discovered by the

Swedish Antarctic Expedition The Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901–1903 was a scientific expedition led by Otto Nordenskjöld and Carl Anton Larsen. It was the first Swedish endeavour to Antarctica in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Background Otto Nordensk ...

(SwedAE; 1901–04) and named for Karl Andreas Andersson, zoologist of the expedition.

Roe Island

. An island lying in the entrance of Curtiss Bay, about west of Cape Andreas. Mapped from air photos taken by

Hunting Aerosurveys Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd was a British aerial photography Aerial photography (or airborne imagery) is the taking of photographs from an aircraft or other flight, airborne platforms. When taking motion pictures, it is also known as aerial v ...

(1955–57). Named by the

(UK-APC) for Sir

Alliott Verdon Roe Sir Edwin Alliott Verdon Roe OBE, Hon. FRAeS, FIAS (26 April 1877 – 4 January 1958) was a pioneer English pilot and aircraft manufacturer, and founder in 1910 of the Avro company. After experimenting with model aeroplanes, he made flight tr ...

, English pioneer aircraft designer and aviator since 1908; founder of A.V. Roe and Co., Ltd. (later SaundersRoe Ltd.).

Seaplane Point

. A point at the south side of Curtiss Bay. Mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys (1955–57). Named by UK-APC in association with Curtiss Bay.

Boulton Peak

. A peak at the southeast side of Curtiss Bay, about south of Cape Andreas. Mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys (1955–57). Named by UK-APC for

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton Matthew Piers Watt Boulton (22 September 1820 – 30 June 1894), also published under the pseudonym M. P. W. ...

, English inventor of ailerons for lateral control of aircraft, in 1868.

Langley Peak

. A peak east of Curtiss Bay, rising above the west end of Wright Ice Piedmon. Mapped from air photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys (1955–57). Named by UK-APC for

Samuel Langley Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834 – February 27, 1906) was an American aviation pioneer, astronomer and physicist who invented the bolometer. He was the third secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a professor of astronomy a ...

(1834-1906), American mathematician, one time Secretary of the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, Education center, education and Research institute, research centers, created by the Federal government of the United States, U.S. government "for the increase a ...

, designer of the first satisfactory powered model airplane, in 1896.

References

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* * {{refend Bays of Graham Land Davis Coast