Queen Maud Bay is a V-shaped bay 2.5 miles wide at the entrance, lying immediately north of Nunez Peninsula along the south coast of South Georgia. Roughly charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, it was named prior to 1922 for Queen Maud, wife of King Haakon VII of Norway, probably by Norwegian whalers who frequented this coast.
Possession Bay is a bay 2 miles (3.2 km) wide on the north coast of South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It recedes southwest for 5 miles (8 km), and is separated from Cook Bay to the north by Black Head promontory. It is connected to King Haakon Bay by Shackleton Gap, a mountain pass.
Cape Vakop is a headland between Hound Bay and Luisa Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner. The name appears on a chart based upon surveys of South Georgia in 1926–30 by DI personnel, but may represent an earlier naming.
Fortuna Bay is a bay 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide. Its entrance is defined by Cape Best on the west and Robertson Point to the east, near Atherton Peak on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named after the Fortuna, one of the ships of the Norwegian–Argentine whaling expedition under C.A. Larsen which participated in establishing the first permanent whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia, in 1904–05. The Second German Antarctic Expedition (SGAE) under Wilhelm Filchner explored Fortuna Bay in 1911–12. Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel charted the area during their 1929–30 expedition.
Right Whale Bay is a bay 1.5 miles wide, entered between Craigie Point and Nameless Point along the north coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to at least 1922 and is now well established. The right whale is a species of whale found in this area – South Georgia was famous for its whaling. It is linked to Morsa Bay by Ernesto Pass.
Neumayer Glacier is a glacier, 8 nautical miles (15 km) long and 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) wide, which flows east along the north flank of the Allardyce Range to the west side of the head of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. Charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskiöld, 1901–04, and named for Georg von Neumayer.
The Bay of Isles is a bay 9 miles (14 km) wide and receding 3 miles (5 km), lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay. The area, along with Grytviken, is one of two Areas of Special Tourist Interest on the island. Of South Georgia's 31 breeding bird species, 17 are found here.
Geikie Glacier is a glacier which flows northeast to Mercer Bay, at the southwest end of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia. It was first charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it after Sir Archibald Geikie, a noted Scottish geologist and Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1882–1901.
Briggs Glacier is a glacier between Mount Worsley and The Trident in central South Georgia, flowing northwest into Murray Snowfield. It was charted as a glacier flowing into the head of Possession Bay in 1929 by Lieutenant Commander John M. Chaplin, Royal Navy (1888–1977). Chaplin was survey officer aboard RRS Discovery during the Discovery Oceanographic Expedition of 1925–1927, and was later in charge of a hydrographic survey party in South Georgia, 1928–30.
Daspit Glacier is a glacier 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, flowing east-northeast along the south side of Mount Shelby to the head of Trail Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by members of the East Base of the United States Antarctic Service, 1939–41, and was originally named Fleming Glacier after Rev. W.L.S. Fleming. It was photographed from the air in 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition under Finn Ronne, and charted in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. It was renamed by Ronne for Captain Lawrence R. Daspit, U.S. Navy, who assisted in obtaining Navy support for the Ronne expedition, the original name being transferred to Fleming Glacier on the Rymill Coast.
Herz Glacier is a glacier flowing southeast from the vicinity of Mount Paterson to the east coast of South Georgia. It was named by the Second German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–12.
Purvis Glacier is a glacier flowing generally northeast into the west side of Possession Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. Charted by the German Antarctic Expedition under Wilhelm Filchner, 1911–12, and named after John Murray-Gletscher. It was renamed Purvis Glacier, possibly to avoid confusion with Murray Glacier in northern Victoria Land, after Petty Officer J. Purvis, Royal Navy.
Beer Island is an island in the South Pacific, 1 nautical mile (2 km) long, lying close to The Niblets and immediately south of Jagged Island and 8 nautical miles (15 km) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition under John Rymill, 1934–37.
Nameless Point is a point at the northwest side of the entrance to Right Whale Bay, near the west end of the north coast of South Georgia. Charted and probably named by DI personnel in the period 1926-30.
Müller Point is a point on the east coast of South Georgia, forming the east limit of Iris Bay. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Johannes Müller, Second Officer and navigator of the Deutschland during the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12. His survey and astronomical fixes included the mapping of this point and resulted in considerable improvements to the existing maps of South Georgia.
Trigonia Island is a small island immediately off the south tip of Beer Island, lying 8 nautical miles (15 km) west of Prospect Point, off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. It was charted and named by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE), 1934–37, under Rymill.
Point Purvis is a point lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Tonsberg Point in Husvik Harbor, South Georgia. Charted by DI in 1928 and named after Petty Officer J. Purvis, Royal Navy, a member of the DI hydrographic survey party in this area in the motorboat Alert, 1928-30.
Elephant Cove is a small circular cove lying 0.5 nautical miles (1 km) north of Klutschak Point along the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name "Elephant Bay", probably applied by early sealers at South Georgia, was recorded on the chart of the German expedition under Kohl-Larsen, 1928–29, and the chart by Discovery Investigations personnel who mapped South Georgia in this period. Cove is considered a better descriptive term for the feature.
Garnerin Point is a point on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, projecting into Wilhelmina Bay southeast of Pelseneer Island. It was charted by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition under Gerlache, 1897–99, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960 for Andre J. Garnerin, a French aeronaut who was the first man to make a successful descent from a free balloon by parachute, in 1797.
Hansen Point is a point lying between Factory Point and Harbour Point on the west side of Leith Harbour, Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. The name appears on a chart showing the results of surveys by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927 and 1929, and is probably for Leganger Hansen, the manager of the whaling station at Leith Harbour at that time.
