Moltke Harbour

A mile-wide bay on the northwest side of Royal Bay

Moltke Harbour

Region: Antarctica

Destinations: South Georgia

Moltke Harbour

This waypoint in many of our Antarctic voyages was discovered by James Cook in 1775, though it was not named until a century later when a German group of the International Polar Year Investigations expedition came to observe the transit of Venus. Arriving in 1882 on the steam corvette SMS Moltke, the first powered vessel to reach South Georgia, Moltke Harbour was soon named after it.

Main image by Robert Wilpernig

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