Seraph Bay is an open

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 (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

about 15 nautical miles (28 km) wide, formed at the southeast end of

Thurston Island Thurston Island is an ice-covered, glacially dissected island, long, wide and in area, lying a short way off the northwest end of Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. It is the third-largest island of Antarctica, after Alexander Island and Berkner Is ...

. It is bounded by

Cape Annawan Tierney Peninsula () is an ice-covered peninsula about 14 nautical miles (26 km) long, between Savage Glacier and Morgan Inlet in the east end of Thurston Island. The east extremity of the peninsula (and Thurston Island overall) is Cape Anna ...

on the northwest,

Abbot Ice Shelf The Abbot Ice Shelf is an ice shelf long and wide, bordering Eights Coast from Cape Waite to Pfrogner Point in Antarctica. Thurston Island lies along the northern edge of the western half of this ice shelf; other sizable islands ( Sherman, ...

on the southwest and Dustin Island on the southeast. It was discovered by members of the

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in flights from the ship ''Bear'' in February 1940. The bay was more accurately delineated by the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

for the brig Seraph of Stonington, CT, which in 1830, under Captain Benjamin Pendleton, sailed westward from the

South Shetland Islands The South Shetland Islands are a group of Antarctic islands with a total area of . They lie about north of the Antarctic Peninsula, and between southwest of the nearest point of the South Orkney Islands. By the Antarctic Treaty of 195 ...

, reaching as far as 101W, south of 60S.

Maps

Thurston Island – Jones Mountains.
1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

External links

Seraph Bay
on

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website
Seraph Bay
on AADC website
Seraph Bay
on

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website
Seraph Bay
on marineregions.org

References

Bays of Ellsworth Land Thurston Island {{ThurstonIsland-geo-stub

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