Ocean Harbor
| Ocean Harbor | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 20 ′ 8 ″ S , 36 ° 15 ′ 28 ″ W | |
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| width | approx. 800 m | |
| depth | approx. 2 km | |
| Islands | Cabrial skirt | |
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The Ocean Harbor is an approximately 2 km long bay on the north coast of South Georgia . Your entrance is 1.5 miles west-northwest of Tijuca Point and is bounded by Pelican Point in the north and Bayard Point in the south. Between 1909 and 1920 there was an active whaling station here ; At that time, South Georgia was the most important whaling center in the world.
Wilhelm Filchner reported in 1922 that the bay was named New Fortune Bay or Neufortuna Bay , probably after the Fortuna , a Norwegian-Argentinian whaling boat that was involved in setting up the first permanent whaling station in Grytviken in 1904 . However, surveys by the South Georgia Survey in 1951/52 revealed that the bay is called Ocean Harbor by whale and seal hunters, presumably after the Ocean Whaling Co , which was stationed there for a while. Based on the local use of the name Ocean Harbor of the name is commonly used also to confusion New Fortuna Bay with the about 35 kilometers north-westerly Fortuna Bay to avoid.
You can still find old pots for boiling seal blubber here, and in the bay is the wreck of the Bayard , a 1,300-ton ship that was 67 meters long and iron-clad and was built in 1864. It was attached to the coaling site when a hurricane ripped it loose on June 6, 1911 and sank it. A steam locomotive that had been used on a track in the whaling station was also left behind (see railways on South Georgia ).
On the shore of Ocean Harbor is the grave of Frank Cabrail († 1820) from the seal-catching ship Francis Allen, the oldest known grave on the island. The exact grave site is not known as the gravestone has not been preserved.
Web links
- Ocean Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ocean Harbor on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Shipwrecks , South Georgia Heritage Trust website , accessed June 13, 2016.