Hercules Bay
Hercules Bay is a bay 0.5 nautical miles wide, which lies 1 nautical mile west-northwest of Cape Saunders along the north coast of South Georgia. It was named by Norwegian whalers after the Hercules, a whale catcher which had visited the bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Herkules Bucht”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Coronda Peak and Mount Antell.
Coronda Peak
Peak
Coronda Peak is a peak over 610 metres high, standing north of Leith Harbour 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 after the SS Coronda whose captain was of assistance to the survey party.
Mount Antell
Peak
Mount Antell is a mountain rising above 610 metres, overlooking the north coast of South Georgia midway between Bjelland Point and Hercules Point. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Georg Antell, foreman of the South Georgia Whaling Company station at nearby Leith Harbour, 1913–39.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leith Harbour and Husvik.
Leith Harbour
Village
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh.
Husvik
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour.
Hercules Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.1236° or 54° 7′ 25″ southLongitude
-36.66654° or 36° 39′ 60″ westElevation
31 metres (102 feet)Open location code
39Q5V8GM+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 9153294196OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Hercules Bay” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Hercules Bay”
- Cebuano: “Hercules Bay (luuk sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Hercules Bay”
- Chinese: “赫爾克里士灣”
- German: “Hercules Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hercules Bay”
- Spanish: “Bahía Hércules”
- Swedish: “Hercules Bay”
- Venetian: “Baja de Hercules”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Horatio Peak and Coronda Lake.
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