Haddon Bay

Haddon Bay is a bay lying immediately east of Mount Alexander along the south coast of Joinville Island, Antarctica. It was discovered in January 1893 by , master of the ship Active, one of the Dundee whalers. The bay was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1953 and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1956 for Professor Alfred C. Haddon, who helped Dr. W.S. Bruce with his preparations for scientific work with the Dundee whaling expedition.^[1]

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Haddon Bay". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

Coordinates: 63°18′S 55°44′W / 63.300°S 55.733°W / -63.300; -55.733

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