The harbour was known to sealers as early as 1820, and in its early history was called Port Williams, after Captain William Smith's brig, Williams; or Yankee Harbor, because of the number of American sealers who harboured there.
Former names for the port have remained for other features in the same archipelago — Williams Point and Yankee Harbor.
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Deception Island map with topography and location of stations and protected zones. The harbour entrance named Neptune's Bellows is at bottom right.
The centre of Deception Island is a caldera, formed by a gigantic volcanic eruption and later flooded. This has created the 10 by 7 km (6.2 by 4.3 mi) basin-like harbour of Port Foster. The entrance to Port Foster is only 560 m (1,840 ft) wide and is named Neptune's Bellows.
^Smellie, J.L.; Lopez-Martinez, J. (2002). Lopez-Martinez, J.; Smellie, J.L.; Thomson, J.W.; Thomson, M.R.A. (eds.). Introduction, in Geology and geomorphology of Deception Island. Cambridge: British Antarctic Survey. p. 3. ISSN 0951-8886.
^"Port Foster, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands" (PDF). Management Plan for Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 145: Measure 3, Appendix 2. Antarctic Treaty Secretariat. 2005. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
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