Granite Harbour () is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a gulf, sea, sound, or bight. A cove is a small, circular bay with a nar ...

in the coast of

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 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. I ...

, Antarctica, about long, entered between

Cape Archer Cape Archer is a cape that marks the north side of the entrance to Granite Harbour on the coast of Victoria Land. It is named by the Northern Party The Northern Party was a regionalist political party in Northern England, founded by leader Micha ...

and

Cape Roberts Cape Roberts () is a cape at the south side of the entrance to Granite Harbour on the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the South Magnetic Pole Party South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite ...

. It was discovered and named by the

British National Antarctic Expedition The ''Discovery'' Expedition of 1901–1904, known officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition, was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839–18 ...

(1901–04) in the ''

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'' in January 1902, while searching for safe winter quarters for the ship. The name derives from the great granite boulders found on its shores.

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Bays of the Ross Dependency Landforms of Victoria Land Scott Coast Ports and harbours of the Ross Dependency {{ScottCoast-geo-stub

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