Doubtful Bay
| Doubtful Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 52 ′ 13 ″ S , 36 ° 0 ′ 30 ″ W | |
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The Doubtful Bay (English for Doubtful Bay ) is a small and deep inland bay on the southeast coast of South Georgia . It is located 1.5 km east of Smaaland Cove and immediately west of Rumbolds Point .
Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) led by Wilhelm Filchner mapped the bay and named it after Walter Slossarczyk (1883–1911), third officer on board the research vessel Germany . Slossarczyk took a dinghy in King Edward Cove on November 26, 1911 and has been missing ever since; the dinghy was later found abandoned in Cumberland Bay . The South Georgia Survey reported after surveys that it carried out between 1951 and 1952 that the name Slossarczyk Bay was not established locally, but that the bay was better known as Doubtful Bay . The third officer's name was retained with the Slossarczyk Crag east of the bay .
Web links
- Doubtful Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Doubtful Bay on geographic.org (English)