Misplaced Pages

Scotia Bay is a bay 4 km (2.5 mi) wide, lying immediately east of Mossman Peninsula on the south side of Laurie Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. It was discovered and roughly charted in the course of the joint cruise by Captain George Powell and Captain Nathaniel Palmer in 1821. It was surveyed in 1903 by the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition under William Speirs Bruce who named it for the expedition ship Scotia.

Historic site

An area of the bay contains a stone hut built in 1903 by the Scottish expedition and known as Ormond House; an Argentine meteorological hut and magnetic observatory, built in 1905 and known as Moneta House; and a graveyard with twelve graves, the oldest dating from 1903. These have been designated a Historic Site or Monument (HSM 42), following a proposal by Argentina to the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.

References

1. "List of Historic Sites and Monuments approved by the ATCM (2012)" (PDF). Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2012. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Scotia Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 

v t e Geography of Antarctica
Adélie Land Argentine Antarctica Australian Antarctic Territory British Antarctic Territory Chilean Antarctic Territory Marie Byrd Land Peter I Island Queen Maud Land Ross Dependency

60°46′S 44°40′W / 60.767°S 44.667°W / -60.767; -44.667

This South Orkney Islands location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Laurie Island
• Bays of the South Orkney Islands
• Historic Sites and Monuments of Antarctica
• Cemeteries in Antarctica
• Ports and harbours of the South Orkney Islands
• South Orkney Islands geography stubs