Ferguson Bay
Ferguson Bay is a small inlet on the south-eastern coast of Thule Island in the Southern Thule island group. It is in effect the only safe anchorage on Southern Thule.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thule Island and Twitcher Rock.
Thule Island
Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
Twitcher Rock
Islet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as Southern Thule. It is named, on account of its remote location, after the mythical land of Thule, said by ancient geographers to lie at the extreme end of the Earth.
Mount Larsen
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mount Larsen is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of Thule Island in the South Sandwich Islands. It was charted in 1930 by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II who named it for Captain C.A. Larsen.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corbeta Uruguay base.
Corbeta Uruguay base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Corbeta Uruguay base was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on Thule Island, Southern Thule, in the South Sandwich Islands. It was vacated and mostly demolished in 1982 following Britain's victory against Argentina in the Falklands War.
Ferguson Bay
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Categories: inlet and body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-59.45843° or 59° 27′ 30″ southLongitude
-27.32591° or 27° 19′ 33″ westOpen location code
39GJGMRF+JJOpenStreetMap ID
node 9562573214OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
3426490Wikidata ID
Q5444232
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ferguson Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ferguson Bay (luuk sa South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)”
- Cebuano: “Ferguson Bay”
- Chinese: “費格森灣”
- German: “Ferguson Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ferguson Bay”
- Portuguese: “Baía de ferguson”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Ferguson”
- Spanish: “Bahia Ferguson”
- Spanish: “Bahía Ferguson”
- Swedish: “Ferguson Bay (vik i Sydgeorgien och Sydsandwichöarna)”
- Swedish: “Ferguson Bay”
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