Sherratt Bay

Location of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands.

Sherratt Bay is a bay between Cape Melville and Penguin Island on the south side of King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands. The existence of the bay was known and roughly charted by sealers working in the area in the early 1820s. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Richard Sherratt, Master of the Lady Trowbridge from Liverpool which was wrecked off Cape Melville on December 25, 1820. Sherratt occupied his time until rescued by making an inaccurate but historically interesting map of the South Shetland Islands.

References

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.

Coordinates: 62°2′S 57°50′W / 62.033°S 57.833°W / -62.033; -57.833 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Sherratt Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/21/2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.