Penguin River is a small meandering stream which flows in a general northeast direction from
Hamberg Lakes to the coast close south of
Horse Head in
Cumberland East Bay
Cumberland East Bay is a bay forming the eastern arm of Cumberland Bay, South Georgia. It is entered between Sappho Point on Thatcher Peninsula and Barff Point on Barff Peninsula. It is nearly wide, and extends in a southeast direction.
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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†...
. It was first surveyed by the
Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Nordenskjold from 1901 to 1904, and was named by
Carl Skottsberg, botanist with the expedition.
Rivers of Antarctica
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