Carlita Bay
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Carlita Bay () is a small bay in the west side of Cumberland West Bay, South Georgia, just west of Islet Point. The feature was named Horseshoe Bay, probably during the survey of Cumberland West Bay by HMS Dartmouth in 1920, but this name has been accepted for a bay close south of Cape George, less than 15 mi away. A new name, proposed by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1957, has been substituted for the feature now described; Carlita Bay is for the Carlita (or Lille Carl), a whale catcher built in 1907, owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca and used for sealing and for general transport work.
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