
Destruction Bay
(King George Island)
British Antarctic Territory
Location: 61° 58' 25" S 57° 39' 15" W
between Cape Melville and Taylor Point, King George Island, was known to nineteenth-century sealers; named Bay of Destruction by Sherratt probably because his ship Lady Trowbridge was wrecked in this vicinity on Christmas Day 1820. The bay was charted by Discovery Investigations in 1937 and photographed from the air by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition in 1956.