Saint Andrews Bay is a
bight
The word is derived from Old English ''byht'' (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”). In modern English, bight may refer to:
* Bight (geography), recess of a coast, bay, or other curved feature
* Bight (knot), a curved section, slack part, or loo ...
2 miles (3.2 km) wide, indenting the north coast of
South Georgia immediately south of
Mount Skittle. 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 penguin
The king penguin (''Aptenodytes patagonicus'') is the second largest species of penguin, smaller, but somewhat similar in appearance to the emperor penguin. There are two subspecies: ''A. p. patagonicus'' and ''A. p. halli''; ''patagonicus'' ...
s 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 and
Buxton Glacier also terminate inland from the bay.
External links
Image of Saint Andrews Bay
Bays of South Georgia
Bights (geography)
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