Spit Bay
Spit Bay is an open bight formed by the northeast coastline of Heard Island and Spit Point, the east extremity of the island. The name derives from the conspicuous Elephant Spit which forms the south and east shore of the bight, and may have been given by American sealers at Heard Island in the period following their initiation of sealing there in 1855.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elephant Spit and Spit Point.
Elephant Spit
Locality
Elephant Spit is a 9 km long sand spit at the eastern end of subantarctic Heard Island, in the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, lying in the Southern Ocean on the Kerguelen Plateau about 450 km south-east of the Kerguelen Islands.
Spit Point
Locality
Spit Point is the east tip of the 5-nautical-mile long Elephant Spit, a conspicuous spit at the eastern end of Heard Island. The feature was charted by early American sealers at Heard Island in the years following initiation of sealing operations there in 1855.
Spit Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.10036° or 53° 6′ 1″ southLongitude
73.74785° or 73° 44′ 52″ eastOpen location code
3JRMVPXX+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 2762336026OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
1547275Wikidata ID
Q141421
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Spit Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Spit Bay (luuk)”
- Cebuano: “Spit Bay”
- Chinese: “斯皮特灣”
- German: “Spit Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Spit Bay”
- Swedish: “Spit Bay (bukt)”
- Swedish: “Spit Bay”
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