Coal Harbor (South Georgia)
| Coal Harbor | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 ′ 24 ″ S , 37 ° 56 ′ 25 ″ W | |
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| Islands | Coal Island | |
The Coal Harbor (English for coal port ) is a small bay on the south coast and near the western end of South Georgia . It is located 800 m east of Undine Harbor .
Around 1912 the bay was as Coaling Harbor known and alluded to the use by whale and seal hunters here coal on their ships bunkerten . Participants in the British Discovery Investigations abbreviated this designation when mapping the area between 1926 and 1930.
Web links
- Coal Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Coal Harbor on geographic.org (English)