Hamilton Bay
| Hamilton Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 48 '4 " S , 35 ° 54' 7" W | |
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| Tributaries | Solomon Glacier | |
The Hamilton Bay is a small bay at the mouth of Solomon glacier in the southeast of South Georgia . Your entrance is 650 m northeast of the entrance to Drygalski Fjord .
The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1957 . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the bay in 1958 after James E. Hamilton (1893-1957), a naturalist in the Falkland Islands who worked for the British Discovery Investigations between 1925 and 1928 .
Web links
- Hamilton Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Hamilton Bay on geographic.org (English)