South West Bay
South West Bay is an open bay indenting the west side of Heard Island immediately north of Cape Gazert in the southern Indian Ocean. The bay was roughly charted on an 1860 sketch map compiled by Captain H.C.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay
- Also known as: “S. W. Bay” and “S. West-Bai”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Andree and Mount Drygalski.
Mount Andree
Peak
Mount Andree is an ice-free hill, 140 m, surmounting the small headland between Cave and West Bays on the west side of Heard Island. First charted and named by Edgar Aubert de la Rue, French geologist aboard the whale humper Kildalkey, who with his wife Andree undertook geological investigations along the north and west sides of the island in January 1929.
Mount Drygalski
Peak
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Mount Drygalski is an ice-free hill, 210 metres high, standing 0.7 nautical miles southeast of Atlas Cove, near the northwest end of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Mount Aubert de la Rue
Peak
Mount Aubert de la Rue is an ice-free hill, 125 metres high, standing at the south end and surmounting the low Fidelia Isthmus that connects Laurens Peninsula with the main mass of Heard Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Erratic Point and Cape Gazert.
Erratic Point
Locality
Erratic Point is a small, moss-covered point at the head of South West Bay, 1.3 nautical miles northeast of Cape Gazert, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Cape Gazert
Locality
Cape Gazert is a cape at the western end of the rocky promontory which forms the south side of South West Bay, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Corinth Head
Locality
Corinth Head is a rocky headland 0.5 nautical miles southeast of Rogers Head, overlooking the west side of Corinthian Bay, on the north side of Heard Island.
South West Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-53.05679° or 53° 3′ 24″ southLongitude
73.37235° or 73° 22′ 21″ eastOpen location code
3JRMW9VC+7WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2762336023OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
1547276Wikidata ID
Q141537
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“South West Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “South West Bay (luuk sa Heard Island and McDonald Islands)”
- Cebuano: “South West Bay”
- Chinese: “西南灣”
- Esperanto: “Sudokcidenta Golfo”
- German: “South West Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “South West Bay”
- Swedish: “South West Bay”
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Localities in the Area
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