Rocky Bay
| Rocky Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 29 ′ 21 ″ S , 36 ° 39 ′ 50 ″ W | |
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| Tributaries | Helland glacier | |
The Rocky Bay (English for rocky bay ) is a small bay with numerous cliffs and reef rocks on the south coast of South Georgia . It is located immediately north of Ducloz Head .
In 1819 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen was probably the first to map the bay during the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821). The descriptive name, established since at least 1930, probably goes back to seal hunters and whalers who operated in this area.
Web links
- Rocky Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rocky Bay on geographic.org (English)