Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Hound Bay

Hound Bay is a bay at the base of . It is 2.5 miles wide at its mouth and recedes 3 miles, entered between Tijuca Point and Cape Vakop along the north coast of South Georgia.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Bahía Jorge”, “Bikjebugten”, “George Bay”, “Hundebugten”, “St. George Bay”, and “St. Georges Bay”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fusilier Mountain.

Peak
is a mountain rising to 810 metres on the north side of , 2.7 nautical miles west of , on the north coast of South Georgia.

Hound Bay

Latitude
-54.38736° or 54° 23′ 15″ south
Longitude
-36.25591° or 36° 15′ 21″ west
Open location code
39Q5JP7V+3J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5263292845
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
3426437
Wiki­data ID
Q13636707
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Satellite Map

Discover Hound Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hound Bay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Hound Bay”
  • Chinese: “獵狗灣”
  • German: “Hound Bay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bikjebukten”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bikjebukten”
  • Norwegian: “Bikjebukten”
  • Spanish: “Bahia Hound”
  • Spanish: “Bahía Hound”
  • Swedish: “Hound Bay”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Canine Point and Lonberg Valley.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fleuret Peak and Rostkovia Falls.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Hound Bay”. Photo: Brian Gratwicke, CC BY 2.0.