Saint Andrews Bay is a
bight 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, indenting the north 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†...
immediately south of
Mount Skittle
Mount Skittle () is a prominent rocky mountain, 480 m, forming the north limit of Saint Andrews Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. The name "Kegel-Berg" (Skittle Mountain) was given for this feature by the German group of the International P ...
. Probably first sighted by the British expedition under Cook which explored the north coast of South Georgia in 1775. The name dates back to at least 1920 and is now well established. On charts where abbreviations are used, the name may be abbreviated to St. Andrews Bay.
King penguins form huge breeding colonies, and the one at St Andrews Bay has over 150,000 birds and is (2021) probably the largest in the world. Because of the long breeding cycle, colonies are continuously occupied.
Cook Glacier
The Cook Ice Cap or Cook Glacier ( or ''Glacier Cook'') is a large ice cap in the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories zone of the far Southern Indian Ocean.
Geography
The Cook Ice Cap reaches a maximum elevation of in its centr ...
, which once terminated in the bay, has retreated from the current beach since the 1970s, leaving a lake and gravel beach in its wake.
Heaney Glacier
Heaney Glacier () is a glacier, long, which lies close northwest of Cook Glacier and flows northeast and then east toward Saint Andrews Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–52, and named ...
and
Buxton Glacier
Buxton Glacier is a glacier flowing northeast between Heaney Glacier and Cook Glacier, on the north coast of the island of South Georgia, immediately south of Mount Skittle. The terminus of Buxton Glacier is located at Saint Andrews Bay. Buxto ...
also terminate inland from the bay.
External links
Image of Saint Andrews Bay
Bays of South Georgia
Bights (geography)
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