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Jossac Bight

Coordinates: 54°16′S 37°11′W / 54.267°S 37.183°W / -54.267; -37.183
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Pendleton's 1802 map showing "Jossac Bite" [sic]

Jossac Bight is a bight extending for 7 nautical miles (13 km) along the south coast of South Georgia between Holmestrand and Aspasia Point. The name "Jossac Bite" was used by the early sealers for a bight to the southeast of King Haakon Bay, and probably referred to this feature. The compound name "Holmestrand-Hortenbucht" (presumably derived from the two existing names Holmestrand and Horten) was later used by a German expedition under Ludwig Kohl-Larsen in 1928–29. A form of the earlier name has been approved.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Jossac Bight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-08.

54°16′S 37°11′W / 54.267°S 37.183°W / -54.267; -37.183 Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Jossac Bight". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.