South Bay, Livingston Island
South Bay lies between Hannah Point and Miers Bluff on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, with the British Antarctic Territory.
The bay was known to sealers from 1820 and called 'Freesland Bay' in association with the original name for the island, also appearing as 'Captain Bys Bay', probably after Captain J. Byers (from whom the Byers Peninsula is named). It was charted by Fildes in around 1821.
The bay later came to be named descriptively as 'South Bay', as found on the Davis chart of 1821-22[1] and later charts. The name 'Elephant Bays' is found too, referring collectively to three adjoining bays: along this coast: South Bay, Walker Bay and False Bay.[2] Later the name 'Erebys Bay' appears, after HMS Erebus, on Weddell's map of 1825 and others. Of all the passing names, it is 'South Bay' which stuck as the common local usage.
The bay was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1930-31. The bay was photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956-57, and surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey of 1957-59.
Location
- Location map: 62°39’36"S, 60°27’46"W