Penguin River

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Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′  S , 36 ° 30 ′  W

Relief Map: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

The Penguin River (English for penguin river ) is a small meandering river on the north coast of South Georgia . It flows in a mainly northeastern direction from Hamberg Lakes to Cumberland East Bay , which it reaches immediately south of Horse Head .

Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld mapped it. Carl Skottsberg , botanist on the expedition, gave it his name. The name Hamberg River made by the German zoologist and doctor August Emil Alfred Szielasko (1864-1928) in 1907 did not prevail.

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