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Bay on Livingston Island, Antarctica
Moon Bay is a bay 7 nautical miles (13 km) wide which recedes 4 nautical miles (7 km) between
Edinburgh Hill and
Renier Point , on the east side of
Livingston Island , in the
South Shetland Islands off
Antarctica . The glaciers
Sopot Ice Piedmont ,
Iskar ,
Huron ,
Struma ,
Kaliakra ,
Panega and
Debelt feed the bay. Both
Half Moon Island and
Elemag Reef lie in Moon Bay.
The bay was known to sealers in the area as early as 1821. It was recharted in 1935 by
Discovery Investigations personnel on the
Discovery II , and probably named by them for nearby
Half Moon Island , which lies in the entrance to the bay.
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Maps
Location of Moon Bay,
Livingston Island in the
South Shetland Islands .
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 60. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Sheet W 62 58. Tolworth, UK, 1968.
Islas Livingston y Decepción. Mapa topográfico a escala 1:100000. Madrid: Servicio Geográfico del Ejército, 1991.
L.L. Ivanov et al.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands . Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
L.L. Ivanov.
Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009.
ISBN
978-954-92032-6-4
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
A. Kamburov and L. Ivanov.
Bowles Ridge and Central Tangra Mountains: Livingston Island, Antarctica. Scale 1:25000 map. Sofia: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2023.
ISBN
978-619-90008-6-1
References
This article incorporates
public domain material from
"Moon Bay" .
Geographic Names Information System .
United States Geological Survey .