Antarctica

Ryder Bay

The Ryder Bay Islands Important Bird Area is a 520 ha designated site on the south-east coast of , . It has been identified as an by BirdLife International because it supports significant numbers of breeding seabirds, notably south polar skuas.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay
  • Also known as: “Ryder Bay Islands Important Bird Area”, “Ryder, bahia”, and “Ryders Bay”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rothera Research Station.

Hamlet
Photo: Dconnor9, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is a British Antarctic Survey base on the , located at Rothera Point, Adelaide Island. Rothera also serves as the capital of the British Antarctic Territory, a British Overseas Territory.

Ryder Bay

Latitude
-67.56186° or 67° 33′ 43″ south
Longitude
-68.31381° or 68° 18′ 50″ west
Open location code
374HCMQP+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6579110218
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
6624569
Wiki­data ID
Q153662
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Satellite Map

Discover Ryder Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Swedish—“Ryder Bay” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “萊德灣”
  • German: “Ryder Bay”
  • Italian: “Baia di Ryder”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ryder Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ryder Bay”
  • Norwegian: “Ryder Bay”
  • Spanish: “Ryder, bahía”
  • Swedish: “Ryder, bahía”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ryder Bay”. Photo: Hgrobe, CC BY-SA 2.5.