Moore Embayment () — shown on some maps as Moore Bay — is a large ice-filled embayment between

Shults Peninsula Shults Peninsula () is a bold, mainly ice-covered peninsula, 10 miles (16 km) long and 5 miles (8 km) wide, at the east side of the mouth of Skelton Glacier to the south of Victoria Land. It was mapped by the United States Geological Surve ...

and Minna Bluff, along the northwest side of the

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

, Antarctica. It was discovered and named by Captain

Robert F. Scott The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...

's Discovery Expedition, 1901–04. Admiral Sir Arthur Moore, Naval Commander-in-Chief at

Cape Town Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...

, placed the resources of the naval dockyard at Cape Town at the disposal of the ''

Discovery Discovery may refer to: * Discovery (observation), observing or finding something unknown * Discovery (fiction), a character's learning something unknown * Discovery (law), a process in courts of law relating to evidence Discovery, The Discovery ...

'' for much-needed repairs before the ship proceeded to

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

and the Antarctic.

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* Bays of the Ross Dependency Hillary Coast {{RossDependency-geo-stub