Ambush Bay

Ambush Bay is a bay indenting the north coast of Joinville Island immediately east of King Point. It is three and a half nautical miles wide.

The first known name for the bay was attributed by t he Argentine Navy, as Bahïa Carminatti after Gualterio Carminatti, a naval engineer of Swiss birth, who served 38 years in the Argentine Navy and who in 1903 was the Chief Engineer in the Uruguay, which rescued members of the Swedish Antarctic Expedition trapped on Snow Hill Island.

The bay was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953. The name was given because the bay is a trap for the unwary mariner if its dangers are not known.

Location

• Location map: 63°10’59"S, 55°27’0"W

References

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