Cape Buller () is a rugged headland forming the west side of the entrance to the

Bay of Isles The Bay of Isles is a bay wide and receding , lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands ...

on the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered and named in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook. Macdonald Cove sits just to the west of Cape Buller on the north coast of the island. The cove is south-southeast of the Welcome Islands and has important fossil occurrences on its periphery. It was named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

in 1982 after David I.M. Macdonald, a British Antarctic Survey geologist in charge of field work on South Georgia, 1975–76 and 1976–77. Sitka Bay sits west of Macdonald Dove, west of Cape Buller. The names Sitka Bay and Buller Bay have both appeared for this feature on maps for many years. Following a survey of South Georgia in 1951 and 1952, the

South Georgia Survey The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of ...

reported that this feature is known locally as Sitka Bay, and the name is approved on that basis.

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