Biscoe Bay

Biscoe Bay is a bay which indents the south-west coast of Anvers Island immediately north of Biscoe Point, in the Palmer Archipelago of the British Antarctic Territory.

This bay was the probable landing site of John Biscoe of the Royal Navy (1794-1843), when on 21 February 1832 he took formal possession of what he believed to be part of the mainland of Antarctica.

The bay was roughly charted on 8 February 1898 by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition of 1897–99, under Adrien de Gerlache, which related the bay to Biscoe's description and named it Baie de Biscoe. The bay was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Arthur Harbour in 1955.

Location

• Location map: 64°48’-0"S, 63°48’58"W

References

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