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Possession Bay

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Possession Bay is a bay wide on the north coast of South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. [1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 27 relations: Admiralty (United Kingdom), Atlantic Ocean, Bay, Cartography, Cook Bay (South Georgia), Discovery Investigations, England, Fauna, Flag of the United Kingdom, Georg Forster, George III, Headland, HMS Adventure (1771), HMS Resolution (1771), Iceberg, James Cook, King Haakon Bay, Kingdom of Great Britain, Landing operation, Musket, Natural history, Ownership, Promontory, Purvis Glacier, Shackleton Gap, South Georgia, Surveying.

  2. History of South Georgia

Admiralty (United Kingdom)

The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Cartography

Cartography (from χάρτης chartēs, 'papyrus, sheet of paper, map'; and γράφειν graphein, 'write') is the study and practice of making and using maps.

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Cook Bay (South Georgia)

Cook Bay is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Cape Crewe and Black Head, narrowing into two western arms, Lighthouse Bay and Prince Olav Harbour, along the north coast of South Georgia.

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Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fauna

Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.

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Flag of the United Kingdom

The national flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, also known as the Union Flag.

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Georg Forster

Johann George Adam Forster, also known as Georg Forster (27 November 1754 – 10 January 1794), was a German geographer, naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist and revolutionary.

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George III

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 173829 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820.

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Headland

A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water.

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HMS Adventure (1771)

HMS Adventure was a barque that the Royal Navy purchased in 1771.

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HMS Resolution (1771)

HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific.

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Iceberg

An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than long that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.

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James Cook

Captain James Cook (– 14 February 1779) was a British explorer, cartographer and naval officer famous for his three voyages between 1768 and 1779 in the Pacific Ocean and to New Zealand and Australia in particular.

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King Haakon Bay

King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia.

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Kingdom of Great Britain

The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.

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Landing operation

A landing operation is a military operation during which a landing force, usually utilizing landing craft, is transferred to land with the purpose of power projection ashore.

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Musket

A musket is a muzzle-loaded long gun that appeared as a smoothbore weapon in the early 16th century, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating plate armour.

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Natural history

Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.

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Ownership

Ownership is the state or fact of legal possession and control over property, which may be any asset, tangible or intangible.

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Promontory

A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).

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Purvis Glacier

Purvis Glacier is a glacier flowing generally northeast into the west side of Possession Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia.

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Shackleton Gap

Shackleton Gap is an ice-covered pass rising to about 300 m between King Haakon Bay and Possession Bay, South Georgia.

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South Georgia

South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Surveying

Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them.

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See also

History of South Georgia

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possession_Bay

Also known as Adventure Point, Alert Point, Assistance Bay, Black Head (South Georgia), Brighton Beach (South Georgia), Inner Reef, Outer Moraine Reef, Zero Point (Possession Bay), Zero Point (South Georgia).