Clowes Bay (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Clowes Bay (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Confusion Island and Oliphant Islands, N of Dove Channel, Signy Island, was charted by DI in 1933 and named after Archibald John Clowes (1900-60), English oceanographer; DI scientific staff, 1924-46; "Marine Station", Grytviken, 1925-26; Discovery II, 1929-31, 1933-35 and 1937-39 (Nelson and others, chart, 1933; BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.7; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973); resurveyed by FIDS in 1947. Bahía Clowes (Argentina. MM, 1953, p.185; Pierrou, 1970, p.251).
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