Jossac Bight
Jossac Bight is a bight extending for 7 nautical miles along the south coast of South Georgia between Holmestrand and Aspasia Point. The name "Jossac Bite" was used by the early sealers for a bight to the southeast of King Haakon Bay, and probably referred to this feature.- Type: Bay
- Description: bight in South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bahía Holmestrand” and “Holmestrand-Hortenbucht”
Jossac Bight
- Categories: bight and body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-54.29088° or 54° 17′ 27″ south
Longitude
-37.19404° or 37° 11′ 39″ west
Open location code
39Q4PR54+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Jossac Bight” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jossac Bight”
- Chinese: “喬薩克灣”
- German: “Jossac Bight”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jossac Bight”
- Spanish: “Ensenada Jossac”
- Swedish: “Jossac Bight”
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