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Hughes Bay
Hughes Bay is a bay lying between Cape Sterneck and Cape Murray along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.〔 It is wide and lies south of Chavdar Peninsula and north of Pefaur (Ventimiglia) Peninsula, indenting the Danco Coast on the west side of Graham Land for . The name has appeared on maps for over 100 years, and commemorates Edward Hughes, master of the ''Sprightly'', a sealing vessel owned by the London whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons, which explored in this area in 1824–25.〔〔 Hughes Bay may have been site of the first landing on the Antarctic mainland, by sealers from the US sealing vessel ''Cecilia'' under Captain John Davis on February 7, 1821.〔(Hughes Bay. ) SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer.〕 ==Glaciers== The glaciers Tumba Ice Cap, Sikorsky, Mouillard, Cayley, Gregory, Breguet, Blériot, Agalina, Krapets and Zimzelen feed the bay.
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