Penguin Bay


Penguin Bay (54 ° 20'S 36 ° 14'O / -54.333, -36.233 Coordinates: 54 ° 20'S 36 ° 14'O / -54.333, -36.233) is a small bay located on the north coast of South Georgia, an island in the South Atlantic Ocean disputed between the Argentine Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain. It is located near New Fortune Bay, southwest of it. Its name appears in a navigation chart of 1931 of the British Admiralty. Obviously it is named after the presence of austral penguins (originally in the Welsh language it was called until the eighteenth century, when it was extinguished by human hunting in the Northern Hemisphere, called in Welsh as pen [head, and even lineage] gwind [white] or giant alca) but in the Georgias what abounds are the austral penguins.

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