Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Hero Bay

(Livingston Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 62° 30' 58" S 60° 27' 58" W
between Cape Shirreff and Williams Point, N Livingston Island, was roughly charted by the nineteenth-century sealers, 1820-24; called in error Blythe Bay; recharted by Discovery Investigations, 1933-34, and called, again in error, Blythe Bay (q.v.). Following air photography by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition and ground survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey, 1956-58, the name Blythe Bay was returned to the original feature named, and the present feature was renamed Hero Bay after the American sloop Hero (Capt. N.B. Palmer, Palmer Coast, q.v.), one of the ships of Pendleton's sealing fleet in the South Shetland Islands, 1820-21, which made at least three circumnavigations of Livingston Island and from which Half Moon Island and Yankee Harbour were discovered, November-December 1820.