Schlieper Bay
| Icefjord | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 '38 " S , 37 ° 49' 29" W | |
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| width | 1.5 km | |
The Schlieper Bay is a bay on the south coast of South Georgia , near the western end of the island. Your entrance is bounded by Weddell Point and Romerof Head .
The bay was named between 1905 and 1912 after the German-born American Hermann H. Schlieper, the first director of the whaling company Compañía Argentina de Pesca from 1904 to 1915.
Web links
- Schlieper Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Schlieper Bay on geographic.org (English)