Hughes Bay (Geography)
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Hughes Bay
January 6, 2009, 12:00 am
December 15, 2011, 9:04 pm
Hughes Bay is a marine body embayment lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula[1], located at 63°13’S 61°20’W
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The bay was likely the site of the first landing on Antarctica made on February 7, 1821 by men put ashore by American seal hunter John Davis. The landing was not widely known until the year 1952. The Bay was charted in December 1824, by a British sealing ship, the Sprightly, commanded by Edward Hughes after whom the bay is named.
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Baum, S. (2011). Hughes Bay. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/Hughes_Bay_(Geography)- ↑ [Geographic Names Information Service, United States Geological Survey] accessed January 6, 2008
