Walker Bay, Livingston Island
- Walker Bay, Livingston Island
Walker Bay (coord|62|38|S|60|42|W|) is a bay lying between John Beach and Hannah Point along the south coast of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Named by the UK-APC in 1958 for John Walker, Master of the sealer "John" who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820-21 and provided George Powell with descriptions and sketches of their southern coasts for incorporation in his 1822 chart.
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* L.L. Ivanov et al, (from English Strait to Morton Strait, with illustrations and ice-cover distribution), 1:100000 scale topographic map, Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, Sofia, 2005
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