Wilson Harbour

Wilson Harbour is a bay a mile and a half wide and three miles long along the south coast of South Georgia, between Kade Point and Cape Demidov.

This coast was roughly charted by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in 1819. Later in the 19th century the bay was recorded by Klutschak as Fliegende Fisch Bai after the American sealer Flying Fish, in which he visited South Georgia in 1877-78. The name 'Wilson Harbour' was established about 1912, probably for J. Innes Wilson, the first resident British Stipendiary Magistrate at South Georgia, 1909-14, and who sketched some of the inland portions of the island at about that time.

Location

• Location map: 54°7’19"S, 37°41’47"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Wilson Harbour