Telefon Bay
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Telefon Bay is a small bay on the north-west coast of Port Foster, the great sheltered water in the heart of Deception Island in the South Shetland Islands, part of the British Antarctic Territory. Rising landward of the bay is Telefon Ridge.
The name of the bay first appears on the chart of the French Antarctic Expedition, led by Charcot, of 1908–10: it was given in honour of the ship the SS Telefon, a Tyne-built a Norwegian cargo steamship which was damaged amongst the islands in 1908 and lay here awaiting repairs. Telefon Ridge takes its name from the bay
Antarctic Specially Protected Area
The bay forms part of an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 140), comprising several separate sites on Deception Island, and designated as such primarily for its botanic and ecological values.[1]
Location
- Location map: 62°55’60"S, 60°40’0"W
References
- ↑ Parts of Deception Island, South Shetland Islands - Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 140: Measure 3, Appendix 1 (Antarctic Treaty Secretariat, 2005)
- Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Telefon Bay