Elsehul is a bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, entered close west of Cape Pride

Cape Pride

Cape Pride is a cape which forms the east side of the entrance to Elsehul, a small bay along the north coast and near the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to have been applied by DI personnel who surveyed Elsehul in 1930....

 along the north coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to the period 1905-12 and was probably applied by Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 sealers and whalers working in the area.

It is separated from Undine Harbour

Undine Harbour

You may be looking for Undine South Harbour near Ducloz Head, South GeorgiaUndine Harbour is a small bay at the head of the embayment between Cape Paryadin and Cape Chaplin on the south coast of South Georgia...

 by a narrow isthmus

Isthmus

An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas usually with waterforms on either side.Canals are often built through isthmuses where they may be particularly advantageous to create a shortcut for marine transportation...

, the Survey Isthmus

Survey Isthmus

Survey Isthmus is a narrow isthmus about 39 m high separating Elsehul and Undine Harbor near the west end of South Georgia. The name appears to first have been used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart....

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Wildlife

Elsehul is one of the islands main breeding grounds for fur seal

Fur seal

Fur seals are any of nine species of pinnipeds in the Otariidae family. One species, the northern fur seal inhabits the North Pacific, while seven species in the Arctocephalus genus are found primarily in the Southern hemisphere...

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Macaroni penguin

Macaroni Penguin

The Macaroni Penguin is a species of penguin found from the Subantarctic to the Antarctic Peninsula. One of six species of crested penguin, it is very closely related to the Royal Penguin, and some authorities consider the two to be a single species...

s, petrel

Petrel

Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes. The common name does not indicate relationship beyond that point, as "petrels" occur in three of the four families within that group...

s and albatross

Albatross

Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds allied to the procellariids, storm-petrels and diving-petrels in the order Procellariiformes . They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific...

also nest here.