Hanusse Bay is a broad bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

, 20 miles (32 km) long in a general north-south direction, lying between the northern portions of Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island

Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was...

 and Arrowsmith Peninsula

Arrowsmith Peninsula

Arrowsmith Peninsula is a cape about long on the west coast of Graham Land, west of Forel Glacier, Sharp Glacier and Lallemand Fjord, and northwest of Bourgeois Fjord, with Hanusse Bay lying to the northwest. It was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1955-58 and named for...

. Liard Island

Liard Island

Liard Island is a mountainous island, long, wide and rising to , situated in the north-central portion of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica...

 lies in its northern portion. It was discovered and first charted by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

, 1908-10, under Charcot, and named by him for the director of the Hydrographic Service of the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

. Liard Island

Liard Island

Liard Island is a mountainous island, long, wide and rising to , situated in the north-central portion of Hanusse Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica...

lies in the middle of the bay.