Gold Harbour
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- This page is for the bay on the island of South Georgia. For the former mining town in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, Canada, see Gold Harbour, British Columbia
Gold Harbour () is a small bay 5 miles (8 km) south-southwest of Cape Charlotte, with Bertrab Glacier at its head, along the east end of South Georgia. During the early 1900's the feature was variously called Anna's Bay, Gold-Hafen, or Sandwich Bay; the latter name has also been used for Iris Bay. The approved name appears to have taken root through common usage by sealers and whalers and is now well established. It is so called because the sun's rays make the cliffs yellow with their light in the morning and evening.
[edit] Wildlife
The area is a breeding ground for penguins include kings and gentoos, and elephant seals also breed here, especially at the west end of the beach, where a glacial stream flows. Sooty albatrosses also breed here.
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This article incorporates text from Gold Harbour, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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