Lewis 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...

 indenting the north coast of Ross Island

Ross Island

Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...

 between Mount Bird

Mount Bird

Mount Bird is a stratovolcano, high, standing about south of Cape Bird, the northern extremity of Ross Island. It was mapped by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Robert Falcon Scott, and apparently named by them after Cape Bird. Shell Glacier and Endeavour Piedmont Glacier...

 and Cape Tennyson

Cape Tennyson

Cape Tennyson is a rock cape on the north coast of Ross Island, about 25 nautical miles southeast of Cape Bird. Discovered in February 1900 by the British Antarctic Expedition under Carsten Borchgrevink, and named by him for English poet Alfred Tennyson....

. Charted by the Discovery expedition under Scott, 1901-04. Named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) in 1964 for Captain Price Lewis, U.S. Navy, commanding officer of the USS Staten Island

Staten Island

Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...

 during U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1959, and who in U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1963 and 1964 was assistant chief of staff and ship group commander, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica.