Telefon Bay, Deception Island

Telefon Bay is a small bay on the north-west coast of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. It is surmounted by Telefon Ridge. The name appears on the chart of the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908–10, and derives from the ship SS Telefon, which sat here awaiting repairs. Telefon Bay is one of the Antarctic Specially Protected Areas on Deception Island.

Looking out from the top of Laguna Hill, at Telefon Ridge at Telefon Bay, a small bay in the northwest side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands toward Goddard Hill

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Looking out from the top of Laguna Hill, at Telefon Ridge at Telefon Bay, a small bay in the northwest side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands toward Goddard Hill

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