Queen Maud Bay
Queen Maud Bay is a V-shaped bay 2.5 miles wide at the entrance, lying immediately north of Nuñez 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.- Bay
- Description: bay in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as“Ensenada Balcarce”“Ensenada Reina Maud”“Königin Maud Bucht”“Queen Maud Harbor”
- Category: body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.22472° or 54° 13′ 29″ south
Longitude
-37.38556° or 37° 23′ 8″ west
Open location code
39Q4QJG7+4Q
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Queen Maud Bay” goes by many names.
Queen Maud BayCebuano
毛德王后湾Chinese
毛德皇后灣Chinese
Queen Maud BayDutch
クイーン・モード湾Japanese
Queen Maud BayNorwegian
Queen Maud BayNorwegian Bokmål
Queen Maud BayNorwegian Nynorsk
Zaliv kraljice MaudSlovenian
Queen Maud BaySwedish
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