Admiralty Bay
Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
- Type: Cove
- Description: bay in Antarctica
- Also known as: “Lasserre Bay” and “Lasserre, bahia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wawel Hill and Admiralen Peak.
Wawel Hill
Peak
Wawel Hill is a hill rising to 290 m north of Point Hennequin, on the east side of Admiralty Bay, King George Island. Named "Góra Wawel" in 1980 by the Polish Antarctic Expedition after a hill by this name in Kraków, historic site of the castle of the Polish kings.
Admiralen Peak
Peak
Admiralen Peak, also variously known as Admiration Peak, Pico Puño, or Cerro Le Poing, is a peak, 1,000 feet high, lying 0.7 miles south-southwest of Crepin Point at the west side of Admiralty Bay on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Admiralen Peak is situated 4 km west of Admiralty Bay.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station.
Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
Hamlet
The Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is a permanent Antarctic research station named after the Brazilian Navy Commander Luís Antônio de Carvalho Ferraz, who visited Antarctica many times with the British exploration team and managed to convince his government to create a self-guided Brazilian Antarctic Program. Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station is situated 3 km northeast of Admiralty Bay.
Admiralty Bay
- Categories: bay and body of water
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Admiralty Bay” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “阿德默勒爾蒂灣”
- French: “baie de l’Amirauté”
- French: “Baie de l’Amirauté”
- German: “Admiralty Bay”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ אדמירליטי”
- Hebrew: “מפרץ האדמירליות”
- Italian: “Baia dell’Ammiragliato (Isole Shetland Meridionali)”
- Italian: “Baia dell’Ammiragliato”
- Latvian: “Admiralitātes līcis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Admiralty Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Admiralty Bay i Sør-Shetlandsøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Admiralty Bay”
- Norwegian: “Admiralty Bay”
- Polish: “Zatoka Admiralicji”
- Portuguese: “Baía do Almirantado”
- Spanish: “Almirantazgo, Bahía”
- Spanish: “Bahia Almirantazgo”
- Spanish: “Bahía Almirantazgo”
- Spanish: “Bahía Lasserre”
- Spanish: “Lasserre, bahía”
- Swedish: “Lasserre, bahía”
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Highlights include Plaza Point and Furmanczyk Point.
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