Ferguson Bay

Ferguson Bay is a small inlet on the south-eastern coast of in the island group. It is in effect the only safe anchorage on Southern Thule.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Thule Island and Twitcher Rock.

Island
Photo: NASA, Public domain.
, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . 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.

Islet
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Thule Island, also called Morrell Island, is one of the southernmost of the South Sandwich Islands, part of the grouping known as . 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.

Volcano
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is a mountain, 710 metres high, situated in the east-central portion of 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.

Locality
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was an Argentine military outpost established in November 1976 on , , 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

Latitude
-59.45843° or 59° 27′ 30″ south
Longitude
-27.32591° or 27° 19′ 33″ west
Open location code
39GJGMRF+JJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9562573214
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
3426490
Wiki­data ID
Q5444232
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Satellite Map

Discover Ferguson Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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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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