4-575: Blythe Bay ( 62°28′S 60°20′W / 62.467°S 60.333°W / -62.467; -60.333 ) is an anchorage at the southeast side of Desolation Island , lying north of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands , Antarctica . The bay is bounded by Craggy Island to the northeast, Desolation Island to the northwest, the Miladinovi Islets to the west and Wood Island to
8-627: Is 3.12 square kilometres (1.20 sq mi). The island was discovered on 15 October 1819 by Captain William Smith in the English merchant brig Williams during his second visit to the islands. The anchorage Blythe Bay at the southeast side of Desolation Island was frequented by the early nineteenth century English and American sealers. The island's midpoint is located at 62°27′27.9″S 60°20′48.3″W / 62.457750°S 60.346750°W / -62.457750; -60.346750 , with
12-586: The discovery of the South Shetland Islands in 1819. This Livingston Island location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Desolation Island (South Shetland Islands) Desolation Island is one of the minor islands in the South Shetlands archipelago, Antarctica situated at the entrance to Hero Bay , Livingston Island . The island is V-shaped with its northern coast indented by Kozma Cove . Surface area
16-410: The south. The feature was known to American and British sealers as Blythe Bay as early as 1821. In the 1930s, however, the name was applied to a large bay between Williams Point and Cape Shirreff (now Hero Bay ). This error has now been rectified and the name Blythe Bay is approved as originally used. The name is probably after Blythe (now Blyth ), England, home of William Smith who reported
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