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Undine South Harbour
''You may be looking for Undine Harbour in the north west of South Georgia''
Undine South Harbour is a bay, 6 miles (10 km) wide and indenting 2 miles (3.2 km) between Ducloz Head and Leon Head along the south coast of South Georgia. ...
near Ducloz Head, South Georgia''
Undine Harbour is a small
bay at the head of the
embayment
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between
Cape Paryadin
Cape Paryadin () is a headland which forms the southernmost point of the west tip of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook. The cape was resighted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen B ...
and
Cape Chaplin on the south coast of
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. This feature (with
Johan Harbour,
Coal Harbour
Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park. It has also now become the name of the neighbourhood adjacent to its southern shoreline.
Neighbourhoo ...
, and
Frida Hole
Frida Hole () is a small bay lying southeast of Coal Harbour
Coal Harbour is the name for a section of Burrard Inlet lying between Vancouver's Downtown Peninsula and the Brockton Point of Stanley Park. It has also now become the name of the ...
, q.v.) may form, part of the feature called "Adventure Bay" by
James Weddell
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, 1823, and "Discovery Bay" by
DI, 1929. The recommended name Undine Harbour, after the sealing ship Undine of the
Compania Argentina de Pesca, has been consistently used for this bay since about 1912. It is separated from
Elsehul by a narrow isthmus.
Johan Harbor () is a small
bay 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) southwest of Undine Harbor. The name "Johann Harbour" was used on a chart resulting from a survey of this area by DI personnel in 1926–27. The SGS reported in 1957 that "Johan" is the correct spelling of the name, which is well known locally.
Laurie Point () is the east extremity of a small
island
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which lies close to shore and marks the south side of the entrance to the harbor on the south coast and near the west end of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the SGS, 1956–57, and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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(UK-APC) for
A.H. Laurie, member of the scientific staff of the
Discovery Investigations Marine Station, Grytviken, in 1930–31, who also worked on the ''
William Scoresby
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Early years
Scoresby was born in the village of Cropton near Pickering south-west of Whitby in Yorkshire. His father, William ...
'' in 1929-30 and on ''
Discovery II
''Discovery II'', built in 1971, is the second of three Discovery sternwheel riverboats operated by the Riverboat Discovery company. ''Discovery II'' is still in use as a tour vessel on the Chena and Tanana rivers near Fairbanks, Alaska.
Hist ...
'' in 1930.
See also
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Bill Inlet
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Birdie Rocks
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Chaplin Head
Bays of South Georgia
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