Hope Bay (

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: ''Bahía Esperanza'') () is a bay long and wide, indenting the tip 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. ...

and opening on Antarctic Sound.

Location

Hope Bay is in

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 ...

on the north coast of the

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, which forms the tip of the

. Hope bay is south of Mount Bransfield and southwest of the

Mott Snowfield Mott Snowfield () is a snowfield in the northeast of Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica, between Laclavère Plateau and the Antarctic Sound. Location Mott Snowfield is in Graham Land in the north of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of th ...

. It opens onto the Antarctic Sound to the west, and faces

Joinville Island Joinville Island () is the largest island of the Joinville Island group, about long in an east–west direction and wide, lying off the northeastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by the Antarctic Sound. Location ...

. It defines the northeast end of the

Tabarin Peninsula The Tabarin Peninsula () is a peninsula long and wide, lying south of the trough between Hope Bay, Antarctica, Hope Bay and Duse Bay and forming the east extremity of Trinity Peninsula in the Antarctic Peninsula. Location Tabarin Peninsula ...

. Features and nearby features include, clockwise from the east, Mount Flora, Mount Carroll, Depot Glacier, Mount Cardinal, Mount Taylor, Whitten Peak, Twin Peaks, Arena Glacier and Andersson Nunatak.

Sailing directions

The US Defense Mapping Agency's ''Sailing Directions for Antarctica'' (1976) describes Hope Bay as follows:

History

Hope Bay was discovered on January 15, 1902 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) under

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, who named it in commemoration of the winter spent there by J. Gunnar Andersson, S.A. Duse, and Toralf Grunden of his expedition, after his ship (the ''

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'') was crushed by the ice and lost. They were eventually rescued by Argentine corvette ''

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''. The ruins of a stone hut built in January 1903 by members of the Swedish expedition can still be seen; it has been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 39), following a proposal by Argentina and the United Kingdom to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting. Hope Bay was also the scene of the

Hope Bay incident The Hope Bay incident occurred in February 1952 at Hope Bay, Antarctica, Hope Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula. It involved an Argentine Navy, Argentine naval party from a nearby onshore base and a British landing party from the survey ship ''HMNZS E ...

when the only shots ever

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