Lafond Bay (63°27′S 58°10′W) is a bay, 3 nautical miles (6 km) wide, which lies south of the Cockerell Peninsula of the Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica. Its head is fed by Sestrimo Glacier.

Lafond Bay

Location of Lafond Bay
Trinity Peninsula in Antarctica

The bay was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (1960–61), and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Lieutenant Pierre Lafond, a French naval officer on the Astrolabe during her Antarctic voyage (1837–40).[1]

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document: "Lafond Bay". (content from the Geographic Names Information System)

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