Moraine Fjord

Moraine Fjord is an inlet three and a half nautical miles long with a reef (a terminal moraine) extending across its entrance, forming the west head of Cumberland East Bay in the north coast of South Georgia.

The fjord was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition under Otto Nordenskjöld, 1901–1904, who so named it Moränfjorden, because it was almost separated from the main bay by a very large terminal moraine.

Discovery Point, formed by glacial moraine, marks the west side of the fjord's entrance. Also surveyed by Swedish Antarctic Expedition, it was probably named by Discovery Investigations personnel in the period following their surveys of 1926–31, presumably for their organization or their ships, the RRS Discovery or RRS Discovery II, which were utilized in the surveys of South Georgia.

Carcelles Peak is a peak rising above 3,500 feet immediately south of the head of Moraine Fjord. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Alberto Carcelles, who made biological collections on South Georgia for the Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires.

References

• Location map: 54°20’11"N, 36°28’39"W
• Gazetteer and Map of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: Moraine Fjord