Apiaria Bight

Apiaria Bight is the 5.7 km wide embayment indenting for 1.7 km the northwest coast of Pasteur Peninsula on Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica. It is entered northeast of Metchnikoff Point and southwest of Cape Roux, and has Soatris Island lying near the southwest side of its entrance.

Eponymy

The bight is named after the ancient Roman fortified city and Byzantine bishopric of Apiaria in Moesia Inferior, now in Northeastern Bulgaria.

Location

Apiaria Bight is centred at.

British mapping in 1980 and 2008.
Maps
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research. Since 1993, regularly upgraded and updated.
Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 64 62. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1980.
Scale 1:250000 topographic map. British Antarctic Survey, 2008.