Wohlschlag Bay


Wohlschlag Bay is a large bay indenting the west side of Ross Island between Harrison Bluff and Cape Royds. It was first charted by the Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–1904, then named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1964 for Donald E. Wohlschlag, professor of biology at Stanford University, who outfitted the biology laboratories on the USNS Eltanin and at McMurdo Station.
Romanes Beach is a beach on the north shore of Wohlschlag Bay just south of Harrison Bluff. It was mapped by a party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition, 1958–59, landed there by the. It was named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for W. Romanes, mountaineer assistant with the expedition.

Maumee Bight

The southern part of the bay is formed by Maumee Bight, a long bight between Rocky Point and Micou Point. In association with the names of expedition ships grouped on this island, it was named after, a tanker that made at least 12 Antarctic deployments to the Ross Sea from 1969–70 to 1984–85.
On the east side of the bight are the Alcorta Rocks, a nunatak east-northeast of Rocky Point. The feature rises to about and is distinctive because three ridges radiate from the center. The rocks were named by US-ACAN in 2000 for Jesse J. Alcorta, a year-round support employee with eight field seasons at McMurdo Station from 1992-93.