Bancroft Bay


Bancroft Bay is a bay lying between Charlotte Bay and Wilhelmina Bay, along the west coast of Graham Land. The bay was first roughly indicated by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897-99. It was remapped by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from air photos taken by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1955-57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Anthony D. Bancroft, senior surveyor of the latter expedition.