The mouth of Andvord Bay is just to the north of an aquatic sill that restricts movement of relatively warm upper layer of circumpolar deep water from the Gerlache Strait into the fjord.

The lack of strong wind combined with the surface freshing cause stratification of salinity to a significant depth in the photic zone.

[1] The FjordEco Project is an integrated field and modeling study supported by the United States National Science Foundation.

Named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for François Arago (1786-1853), French geodesist who first demonstrated the application of photography to mapmaking in 1839.

The 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) long icefalls overlook the east-most cove of Andvord Bay.

Named by UK-APC after T. W. Bagshawe who, with Maxime Charles Lester, wintered at Waterboat Point near Andvord Bay in 1921.

A steep-sided headland, 700 metres (2,300 ft) high, forming the north side of the entrance to Andvord Bay.

Discovered by the BelgAE, 1897-99, and named after Professor Edouard Van Beneden, president of the Belgica Commission and author of several of the zoological reports of the expedition.

Salvesen's floating factory Neko, which operated in the South Shetland Islands and Antarctic Peninsula area for many seasons between 1911-12 and 1923-24, and which often used this bay.

The name Forbes Hill was given by Scottish geologist David Ferguson in 1913-14 to a corner or spur of the plateau escarpment which is not a definable feature.

Surmounts Bagshawe Glacier to the southwest, and Andvord Bay and its southernmost part Lester Cove to the north where the ridge ends in Forbes Point.

A mountain 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southeast of Mount Inverleith on the south side of Bagshawe Glacier.

Named by Scottish geologist David Ferguson who made a geological reconnaissance in this vicinity from the whale catcher Hanka in 1913.

A mountain, 1,495 metres (4,905 ft) high, standing near the edge of the plateau escarpment 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) east-northeast of the head of Skontorp Cove.

A peak, 1,105 metres (3,625 ft) high, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) southwest of Steinheil Point on the south side of Andvord Bay.

Named by the Polish Antarctic Expedition, about 1995, after Almirante Brown Station (Argentine) on nearby Coughtrey Peninsula, Paradise Harbor.

A mountain, 890 metres (2,920 ft) high, standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km; 1.7 mi) south-southeast of Duthiers Point on the west coast of Graham Land.

Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Emil von Hoegh (1865-1915), German mathematical optician who designed the first double anastigmatic camera lens in 1893.