Waddington Bay

Kayaking in the Waddington Bay

Waddington Bay is a bay two nautical miles long, in a north-west to south-east direction, and one nautical mile wide, on the east side of the Penola Strait between Cape Tuxen and Rasmussen Island on the Graham Coast of Graham Land, in the British Antarctic Territory.

This bay is partially defined on the charts of the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. It was ; roughly charted by the French Antarctic Expedition of 1908–1910, under Charcot, who named it Baie Waddington after Sénateur Waddington, Président de la Chambre de Commerce, who honoured the French Antarctic Expedition on its return to Rouen in 1910

The bay was further charted by the British Graham Land Expedition in 1936. It was recharted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and the Royal Navy in 1958.

A gentoo penguin colony was discovered at the southern headland of Waddington Bay in January 2014 by a group of kayakers.

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  Kayaker watches seal in Waddington Bay
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  Kayaker in Waddington Bay
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  Kayakers in Waddington Bay
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  Kayaking in Waddington Bay
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  Gentoo penguin colony at southern headland of Waddington Bay

Location

• Location map: 65°15’58"S, 64°4’59"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Waddington Bay