Fortuna Bay is a bay 3 miles (5 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide, entered between Cape Best and Robertson Point on the north coast of South Georgia. It was named after the Fortuna, one of the ships of the Norwegian–Argentine whaling expedition under C.A. Larsen which participated in establishing the first permanent whaling station at Grytviken, South Georgia, in 1904–05.
Ocean Harbour 22 miles (35 km) to the south east, was formerly known as "New Fortuna Bay".
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While many folks think cowboys, armadillos and barbeque when they envision the Lone Star State, anyone actually from Texas knows it's as complex as seating arrangements at a divorced couple's kid's wedding ... It sports a generous outdoor pool, restaurant overlooking Corpus ChristiBay, free breakfast, and easy proximity to the Texas State Aquarium ... FortunaBay Bed & Breakfast offers something the high-end chain hotels cannot ... ....
We are on a bus, which is carrying us to a port, where we will load up a ship. Nothing unusual about that. Nothing strange, except for our fat wool hats, our puffy penguin-y parkas, our knee-high insulated boots ... Luckily, the guides from the ship know expert tricks with tripods and clapping hands to keep them at bay ... With the ship's doctor along just in case, a band of us staggers up into the hills over South Georgia's FortunaBay ... ....