Schlieper Bay

Schlieper Bay is a bay 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, entered between Romerof Head and Weddell Point along the south coast of South Georgia. It is separated from Church Bay by the Scree Gap. Schlieper Bay was named between 1905 and 1912 after the director of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca.

British scientists aboard the Undine visited the bay in 1911, while surveying South Georgia's coast.^[1]

According to Fur Seals: Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea 20,000 seals breed in Schlieper Bay.^[2]

Whalers and other visitors inadvertently brought rats to South Georgia, which put bird populations at risk, as the rats stole and ate their eggs. After rat eradication efforts were carried out in the Schlieper Bay scientists found a nest of South Georgia pipits, with five chicks.^[3] The South Georgia pipit is the world's most southerly songbird.

During the Falklands War (1982), the British magistrate and other civilians and military present in Grytviken were removed from South Georgia, but another 15 Britons remained beyond Argentine reach. The losses suffered at Grytviken prevented Argentina from occupying the rest of the island, with Schlieper Bay, along with Bird Island base and field camps at Lyell Glacier and St. Andrews Bay, remaining under British control.

References

^ Headland, Robert (1992). The Island of South Georgia. CUP Archive. p. 70. ISBN 9780521424745. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^ Gentry, Roger L.; Kooyman, Gerald L., eds. (2014). Fur Seals: Maternal Strategies on Land and at Sea. Princeton University Press. pp. 103, 110, 112, 113. ISBN 9781400854691. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
^ "2008 News Archive". Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019. News just in of the discovery of the first South Georgia Pipit [Anthus antarcticus] nest in an area cleared of rodents by the Habitat Restoration Project. The nest was spotted at Schlieper Bay on the South coast of the North-West baiting zone at Weddell Point.