Admiralty Bay (South Shetland Islands)

Admiralty Bay is an irregular bay, 8 km (5 mi) wide at its entrance between Demay Point and Martins Head, indenting the southern coast of King George Island for 16 km (10 mi), in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

The name appears on a map of 1822 by Captain George Powell, a British sailor, and is now established in international usage.

A mariner's guide to the region pronounced the bay to have the best anchorage of any in the South Shetlands, "being well-sheltered all around and having moderate depths over a bottom of good, stiff clay.

"[1] Chilean scientists have claimed that Amerinds visited the area, due to stone artifacts recovered from bottom-sampling operations in the bay.

In winter leopard and crabeater seals are often seen on nearby sea ice.