Esbensen Bay
| Esbensen Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 51 '32 " S , 35 ° 58' 17" W | |
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The Esbensenbucht is a small bay on the southeast coast of South Georgia . It is located 1.5 km southwest of the Nattriss Head .
Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) led by Wilhelm Filchner mapped and named the bay. It is named after the Norwegian captain Viktor Esbensen (1881-1942), administrator of the whaling station of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca in Grytviken .
Web links
- Esbensen Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Esbensen Bay on geographic.org (English)