Gibbon Bay

Chinstrap penguins breed in the IBA

Gibbon Bay is a bay 2 km (1.2 mi) long and wide, entered between Rayner Point and The Turret along the east coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands of Antarctica. The bay was first seen in December 1821 by Captain George Powell and Captain Nathaniel Palmer, but was more accurately delineated on a 1912 chart by Captain Petter Sorlle. It was recharted in 1933 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II and named for the ship's surgeon, Dr G.M. Gibbon.[1]

  1. ^ "Gibbon Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 23 April 2012.