Church Bay

This article is about the bay in Antarctica. For the beach in Bermuda, see Church Bay, Bermuda.
Not to be confused with Cathedral Cove.

Church Bay is a bay 4.5 nautical miles (8 km) wide, indenting the north coast of South Georgia between Low Rock Point and Cape North. It was roughly charted by Discovery Investigations personnel in the period 1925–30 and surveyed by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–57. The name is well established in local use.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Church Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2011-11-12.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Church Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

Coordinates: 54°0′S 37°47′W / 54.000°S 37.783°W / -54.000; -37.783

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