1:250,000 scale topographic map of the Yule Bay area.

Yule Bay is a bay indenting the coast of northern Victoria Land between Cape Hooker and Cape Dayman.[1] An inner (western) portion of the bay is circumscribed by Bates Point and Ackroyd Point. Discovered by Captain James Clark Ross, 1841, who named it for Henry B. Yule, Second Master on HMS Erebus.[2] In 2020 a penguin colony has been sighted at the bay.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Yule Bay". Antarctica NZ. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  2. ↑ "Yule Bay". geonames.usgs.gov. 1 January 1947. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  3. ↑ "Yule Bay, Antarctica". www.esa.int. 5 August 2020. Retrieved 2021-05-31.

70°44′S 166°40′E / 70.733°S 166.667°E / -70.733; 166.667Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Yule Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 


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