Fortuna Bay
| Fortuna Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 7 ′ 0 ″ S , 36 ° 48 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
| depth | 5 km | |
| Islands | Fortuna Rocks | |
| Tributaries | Fortuna Glacier , King River , Turnback Glacier | |
The Fortuna Bay is a 1.5 km wide and 5 km long bay on the north coast of South Georgia . Your entrance is between Cape Best and Robertson Point .
The Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen named the bay after his ship Fortuna , with which he sailed between 1904 and 1905 in the waters around South Georgia.
Web links
- Fortuna Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fortuna Bay on geographic.org (English)