Ocean Harbour

Ocean Harbour is a deeply indented bay on the north coast of South Georgia, which is located 2.4 km west-northwest of Tijuca point. Between 1909 and 1920, when this was an active whaling station; at that time was the most important South Georgia whaling capital of the world.

Wilhelm Filchner reported in 1922, the bay bear the name New Fortune Bay or Neufortuna Bay, probably after the Fortuna, a Norwegian- Argentine whaling boat, which took part in 1904 in the establishment of the first permanent whaling station at Grytviken. Observations in the years 1951/52, however, brought to light that the bay is called by the whale and sealers Ocean Harbour, probably of the Ocean Whaling Co, which for a time had their station there. The name Ocean Harbour is generally applied on the basis of local use and also to a confusion of the name with the New Fortuna Bay Fortuna Bay, 35 km to the northwest to avoid.

You can find old pots for boiling of Robbenblubber here still, also located in the bay the wreck of Bayard, a 1300 -ton ship, which was 67 meters long and iron- clad and was built in 1864. She was attached to the cooling body, as a hurricane they broke away and sank.

In Ocean Harbour is the oldest known grave of the island, namely the Frank Cabrail († 1820) from sealers Francis Allen. The grave stone is not obtained.

- 54.333333333333 - 36.266666666667Koordinaten: 54 ° 20 '0 "S, 36 ° 16' 0 " W

• Geography (South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
• Bay (Atlantic Ocean )
• Whaling