Arms of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Cape Saunders

(Stromness Bay)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Location: 54° 7' 52" S 36° 37' 36" W
NW entrance point of Stromness Bay, was discovered and charted on 17 January 1775 by Cook, who named it after Admiral Sir Charles Saunders (1713?- 75), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1766, under whose command he had served in the St Lawrence River in 1759.