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Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km (5 mi) wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km (10 mi), in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
King George island has three major bays, Maxwell Bay, Admiralty Bay, and King George Bay.Admiralty Bay contains three fjords, and is protected as an Antarctic Specially Managed Area under the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.
The islands were discovered by British mariner William Smith, in William, in 1819.Although Dutch mariner Dirck Gerritsz in 1599 or Spanish Admiral Gabriel de Castilla in 1603 might have sighted the South Shetlands, or North or South American sealers might have visited the archipelago before Smith, historical evidence is insufficient to sustain such assertions.
Admiralty Bay is the name of several places: Admiralty Bay, Bequia, in Bequia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Admiralty Bay (New Zealand), in the Marlborough Sounds, South Island, New Zealand; Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica; Admiralty Bay (Washington), USA; Admiralty Bay is a former name of Ganges Harbour, British ...
Goulden Cove) is the southern of two coves at the head of Ezcurra Inlet, Admiralty Bay, on King George Island, in the South Shetland IslandsIt was probably named by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, who surveyed Admiralty Bay in December 1909. [1]
Jardine Peak) is a peak, 285 metres (935 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) southwest of Point Thomas on the west side of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for D. Jardine of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey , a geologist at Admiralty Bay ...
Ezcurra Inlet. Ezcurra Inlet) is an inlet forming the western arm of Admiralty Bay, King George Island, in the South Shetland IslandsIt was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and named "Fiord Ezcurra" after Pedro de Ezcurra, an Argentine politician and Minister of Agriculture in 1908, who assisted the French expedition.
PureGym, New Barnet A PureGym club in Leeds. PureGym Limited is a British chain of no-frills health clubs, headquartered in Leeds.It is Britain's largest gym chain by membership, with over 1,900,000 members registered to their gyms.