Hill Bay is a 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...

, 5 nautical miles (9 km) long and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, which indents eastern Anvers Island

Anvers Island

Anvers Island or Antwerp Island or Antwerpen Island or Isla Amberes is a high, mountainous island long, which is the largest feature in the Palmer Archipelago, lying southwest of Brabant Island at the southwestern end of the group. Anvers Island is located at...

 between Spallanzani Point

Spallanzani Point

Spallanzani Point is a point forming the north side of the entrance to Hill Bay and the east tip of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Probably first seen by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache. Mapped in 1959 from photos taken by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57...

 and Mitchell Point

Mitchell Point (Antarctica)

Mitchell Point is a point at the south side of the entrance to Hill Bay on the east coast of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Photographed by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956-57, and mapped from these photos in 1959. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Silas W...

. The bay was roughly surveyed by the Admiralty Hydrographic Unit, 1951-52. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leonard C. Hill of the Discovery Investigations

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

, who served as an officer on RRS William Scoresby

William Scoresby

William Scoresby , was an English Arctic explorer, scientist and clergyman.-Early years:Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering 26 miles south of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William Scoresby , made a fortune in the Arctic whale fishery...

 in Jan.-Feb. 1931, and on every Antarctic commission of RRS Discovery II between 1931-39.