Islands
South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands

Esbensen Bay

Esbensen Bay is a small bay 1 nautical mile southwest of Nattriss Head, along the southeast end of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Filchner, and was named for Captain Viktor Esbensen, manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca whaling station at , the first land-based whaling station in Antarctica.
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  • Type: Bay
  • Description: bay in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
  • Also known as: “Espensen Bucht”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Slossarczyk Crag.

Peak
is a mountain crag, 805 m, between and Esbensen Bay at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57.

Esbensen Bay

Latitude
-54.86011° or 54° 51′ 36″ south
Longitude
-35.9695° or 35° 58′ 10″ west
Open location code
39Q642QJ+X6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9112166884
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
3426495
Wiki­data ID
Q5396782
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Satellite Map

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

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Esbensen Bay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Esbensen Bay”
  • Chinese: “埃斯本森灣”
  • German: “Esbensenbucht”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Esbensen Bay”
  • Spanish: “Bahia Esbensen”
  • Spanish: “Bahía Esbensen”
  • Swedish: “Esbensen Bay”

Localities in the Area

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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 “Esbensen Bay”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.