False Bay (Livingston Island)

Location of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands
False Bay from Orpheus Gate, with Deception Island in the background
Fragment of George Powell's 1822 chart of the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands featuring South Bay
Topographic map of Livingston Island

False Bay (62°43′S 60°22′W / 62.717°S 60.367°W / -62.717; -60.367) is a bay 4 miles (6.4 km) long, which lies between Barnard Point and Miers Bluff on the south side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The glaciers Hurd Ice Cap, Huntress, Ruen Icefall, Peshtera and Charity feed the bay.

It was probably first entered and charted by Captain Nathaniel Palmer in November 1820, and was likely named because of the possibility in thick weather of confusion between this feature and nearby South Bay, where Johnsons Dock was frequented by the early sealers.[1]

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