Trepassey Bay (Spanish: Bahía Corrientes) is a bay that is 1.2 kilometres (0.75 mi) wide, located on the northeast side of the Tabarin Peninsula, 5.6 kilometres (3.5 mi) south-southeast of the Hope Bay, in the extreme northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula.[1][2] It was first surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and by E. Burden, Master of the Trepassey, from that vessel in 1947. The FIDS resurveyed the bay in 1955.[1]

The bay was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the vessel which was used for the relief of the station at Hope Bay in 1946-47 seasons and for a survey of Antarctic Sound during the second season.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Trepassey Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-06-08.
  2. ↑ "Trepassey, bahía | Map". Mapcarta.

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Trepassey Bay (Antarctica)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.

63°28′S 56°58′W / 63.467°S 56.967°W / -63.467; -56.967


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