Papua Beach
| Papua Beach | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | Cumberland West Bay | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 15 ′ 20 ″ S , 36 ° 33 ′ 49 ″ W | |
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| length | 2.5 km | |
The Papua Beach is a 2.5 km long beach on the north coast of South Georgia . It lies on the southeastern shore of Cumberland West Bay .
The name of the beach is derived from the name Papua Cove for a small bay on this stretch of beach, which the German zoologist and doctor August Emil Alfred Szielasko (1864–1928) dubbed Penguin Bay in 1907 . The former was named by participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . It is named after the gentoo penguin ( Pygoscelis papua ). The South Georgia Survey transferred this name to the beach described here in the course of its surveys carried out between 1951 and 1952.
Web links
- Papua Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Papua Beach on geographic.org (English)