Crater bay

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Crater bay
Leskov Island (center) with the crater bay in the northeast

Leskov Island (center) with the crater bay in the northeast

Waters South Atlantic
Land mass Leskov Island ( South Sandwich Islands )
Geographical location 56 ° 40 ′ 17 ″  S , 28 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  W Coordinates: 56 ° 40 ′ 17 ″  S , 28 ° 5 ′ 35 ″  W
Crater Bay (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
Crater bay

The volcanic bay is a bay on the northeast side of Leskov Iceland in the archipelago of the South Sandwich Islands . Your entrance is limited to the north by Bowsprit Point and to the south by Rudder Point .

Participants in the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) mapped them. Expedition leader Wilhelm Filchner named it so because its formation is the result of a volcanic eruption .

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