Magnet Bay is a shallow coastal indentation, wide and receding only , located west of Cape Davis at the northwest side of Edward VIII Plateau in

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. The

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, 1929–31, under

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, originally charted Magnet Bay as a larger bay extending from Cape Davis to

Cape Borley Cape Borley () is an ice-covered cape protruding slightly from the coast midway between Cape Batterbee and Magnet Bay. It was discovered in January 1930 by the British Australian New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (BANZARE) under Mawson, ...

, naming it after the vessel ''Magnet'', in which Peter Kemp first sighted land in this vicinity in 1833. Later exploration, particularly that of the

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, 1936–37, has shown the bay to be less extensive.

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Bays of Enderby Land {{EnderbyLand-geo-stub