Wilson Harbour

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. It was discovered by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen Fabian ...

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, who sketched some of the inland portions of the

island An island (or isle) is an isolated piece of habitat that is surrounded by a dramatically different habitat, such as water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island ...

at about that time. Bays of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub