MacKay Bay
| MacKay Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 1 ′ 16 ″ S , 37 ° 30 ′ 33 ″ W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The MacKay Bay is a 1.5 km wide bay on the north coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located southwest of Macdonald Cove .
It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 2009. It is named after Donald MacKay, log bookkeeper on the corvette Aspasia , with which the German-born merchant Edmund Fanning transported 57,000 seal skins from South Georgia between 1800 and 1801.
Web links
- MacKay Bay . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)