Hope Bay

Hope Bay (Spanish: Bahía Esperanza) on Trinity Peninsula, is five kilometres (three miles) long and three kilometres (two miles) wide, indenting the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula and opening on Antarctic Sound. It is the site of the Argentinian Antarctic settlement Esperanza Base, established in 1952.

Not to be confused with Hope Bay, Jamaica or Hope Bay, Ontario.
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