Fumarole Bay

Fumarole Bay is a bay on the southwest side of Port Foster in the interior of Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands. Having a similar name in the same island is the Vapour Col.

Decepción station on Fumarole Bay

Map of Deception Island

The bay is part of the larger, enclosed water of Port Foster. It was named "Bahia 1 de Mayo" or "Bahia Primero de Mayo" by the Argentine Antarctic Expedition of 1942–43, after the 1 de Mayo, an expedition ship which visited Deception Island in 1942 and 1943; she sank off the coast of Argentina on 5 February 1944.

The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a full survey in 1953-54. Aerial photography was carried out by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition of 1956-57. After this, the bay was named 'Fumarole Bay' because the most active fumarole on the island is situated here.

Fumaroles at the bay are in the temperature range of 100-107 °C.^[1]

62.966°S 60.7°W / -62.966; -60.7

See also

• Wensleydale Beacon

References

1. Smellie, J.L. (2002). Lopez-Martinez, J.; Smellie, J.L.; Thomson, J.W.; Thomson, M.R.A. (eds.). Volcanic hazard, in Geology and geomorphology of Deception Island. Cambridge: British Antarctic Survey. p. 50. ISSN 0951-8886.

• SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer

 This article incorporates public domain material from "Fumarole Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.