COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

W of Cape Brown, NE Alexander Island, was roughly charted by FAE, 1908-10, in January 1909 and shown as a strait separating Mount Nicholas (q.v.) from Alexander Island; named Détroit Schokalsky after Yuliy Mikhaylovich Shokal'skiy [as now transliterated] (1856-1940), Russian geographer, meteorologist and oceanographer of Leningrad University (who used the form Schokalsky when writing in Roman script) (Charcot, 1912, Pl.1). Détroit Shokalski [sic] (Bongrain, 1914, vue 42 following p.60). Schokalsky Strait (BA chart 3175, 9.ix.1914; Wilkins, 1929, map facing p.374; Herdman, 1932, chart 7). Shokalski Strait (BA 1916, photograph facing p.409). Schokalsky S. (HA chart, 1927). The coast in this vicinity was partly photographed from the air by BGLE, 1 February 1937, but the present feature was not identified. Following survey by FIDS from "Stonington Island" in November-December 1948, the feature was identified as a bay, with the low-lying Hampton Glacier to the S giving it the appearance of a channel. Proliv Shokal'skogo (Karelin, 1949, map p.30). Schokalsky Bay ([in 69°15'S 69°55'W] APC, 1955, p.19; USHO chart 6638, 1955; BA, 1956, p.82; [co-ordinates corrected] DOS 610 sheet W6968, 1960; APC, 1977, p.29). Bukhta Shokalskogo (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).

Bay, 9 mi wide at its entrance and indenting 6 mi between Mount Calais and Cape Brown along the E coast of Alexander Island. Hampton Glacier discharges tremendous amounts of ice into the head of Schokalsky Bay at a steep gradient causing the ice there to be extremely broken and irregular, and discourages use of this bay and glacier as an inland sledging route onto NE Alexander Island. First sighted from a distance in 1909 and roughly charted by the FrAE under Charcot who, thinking it to be a strait, gave the name "Detroit Schokalsky" after Yuliy M. Shokal'skiy, Russian geographer, meteorologist and oceanographer. Charcot followed the spelling Schokalsky used by the man himself when writing in Roman script. The coast in this vicinity was photographed from the air and this bay roughly charted in 1937 by the BGLE, but Charcot's "Detroit Schokalsky" was not identified. Surveys by FIDS in 1948 identified this bay as the feature originally named by Charcot.