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Hope Bay, Antarctica

bay in Antarctica

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ141681 ↗
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Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) (63°23′S 56°59′W) is a bay 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) long and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound.

Location

Hope Bay is in Graham Land on the north coast of the Trinity Peninsula, which forms the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Hope bay is south of Mount Bransfield and southwest of the Mott Snowfield.

It opens onto the Antarctic Sound to the west, and faces Joinville Island.

It defines the northeast end of the Tabarin Peninsula.

Features and nearby features include, clockwise from the east, Mount Flora, Mount Carroll, Depot Glacier, Mount Cardinal, Mount Taylor, Whitten Peak, Twin Peaks, Arena Glacier and Andersson Nunatak.

Sailing directions

The US Defense Mapping Agency's Sailing Directions for Antarctica (1976) describes Hope Bay as follows:

Hope Bay is about 1 2/3 miles wide between Sheppard and Stone Points, Its northwestern and southeastern entrance points, respectively, and indents the coast to a distance of 2 1/2 miles in a southwest direction. The northwestern entrance is a steep wall of ice which, on entering the bay, is backed by steep, sharp-ridged mountains, which trend southwestward forming the walls of a valley. A nunatak with a cliff about 300 feet high, located 2 1/4 miles southwestward of Sheppard Point, is conspicuous. On the opposite side of the bay several lofty pyramidical nunataks are conspicuous on the high, rocky wall.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Hope and Antarctica can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q141681. The Library of Congress control number is sh2010010022. Authority coordinates are -63.383, -56.983. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hope Bay, Antarctica” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.