Wilson Harbor
| Wilson Harbor | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 7 ′ 19 ″ S , 37 ° 41 ′ 47 ″ W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
| depth | 5 km | |
| Tributaries | Schrader Glacier | |
The Wilson Harbor is a bay on the south coast of South Georgia , near the western end of the island. Your entrance is limited by Kade Point and Cape Demidow .
The coast near the bay was roughly mapped in 1819 during the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . It was named around 1912. The name is probably James Innes Wilson (1882–1940), who worked from 1909 to 1914 as a justice of the peace and postmaster at the Leith Harbor whaling station , who made sketches of some inland sections of the island.
Web links
- Wilson Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Wilson Harbor on geographic.org (English)