Moon Bay (62°35′S 60°00′W / 62.583°S 60.000°W / -62.583; -60.000Coordinates: 62°35′S 60°00′W / 62.583°S 60.000°W / -62.583; -60.000) is a 7 mi wide bay, which recedes 4 mi between Edinburgh Hill and Renier Point, on the east side of Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Half Moon Island is situated in the bay. Moon Bay was known to sealers in the area as early as 1821. Recharted by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1935.
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Famous quotes containing the words moon and/or bay:
“As the moon waxes, then wanes, so at middle age do people decline.”
—Chinese proverb.
“The very dogs that sullenly bay the moon from farm-yards in these nights excite more heroism in our breasts than all the civil exhortations or war sermons of the age.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)