Destruction Bay

Destruction Bay indents the east coast of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands within the British Antarctic Territory, extending between Cape Melville and Taylor Point.

This bay was known to nineteenth-century sealers. It was named 'Bay of Destruction' by Sherratt probably because his ship Lady Trowbridge was wrecked in this vicinity on Christmas Day 1820.

The bay was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1937 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956..

Location

• Location map: 61°58’25"S, 57°39’15"W

References

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