Antarctic Bay
| Antarctic Bay | ||
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 View of Antarctic Bay, background: Crean Glacier |
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 6 ′ 18 ″ S , 36 ° 59 ′ 24 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
| length | 6.5 km | |
| Islands | Contrast Rocks | |
| Tributaries | Crean Glacier , Compass Glacier , Nineteen-sixteen Snowfield | |
The Antarctic Bay is a bay on the north coast of South Georgia . It lies between Antarctic Point and Morse Point .
It was first sighted probably in 1775 during the Second South Sea voyage (1772–1775) of the British navigator and explorer James Cook . Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of polar explorer Otto Nordenskjöld explored the bay in 1902. Nordenskjöld named it after the Antarctic , the ship of the expedition.
Web links
- Antarctic Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Antarctic Bay on geographic.org (English)