Wilson Harbor

Wilson Harbour is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a Gulf (geography), gulf, sea, sound (geography), sound, or bight (geogra ...

1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide and 3 miles (4.8 km) long, between

Kade Point Kade Point () is a point separating Ice Fjord and Wilson Harbor on the south coast of South Georgia. Kade Point is an established name dating back to about 1912. References Headlands of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub ...

and

Cape Demidov Cape Demidov () is a cape which forms the south side of the entrance to Wilson Harbour, on the south coast and near the western end of South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of ...

along 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 coast was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819. Wilson Harbour was named about 1912, probably for

J. Innes Wilson ''J. The Jewish News of Northern California'', formerly known as ''Jweekly'', is a weekly print newspaper in Northern California, with its online edition updated daily. It is owned and operated by San Francisco Jewish Community Publications In ...

, who sketched some of the inland portions of the island at about that time. Bays of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub