Cape Buller
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Cape Buller (Script error: No such module "Coordinates".) is a rugged headland forming the west side of the entrance to the Bay of Isles on the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered and named in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook.[1]
Macdonald Cove sits just to the west of Cape Buller on the north coast of the island. The cove is Script error: No such module "convert". south-southeast of the Welcome Islands and has important fossil occurrences on its periphery. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1982 after David I.M. Macdonald, a British Antarctic Survey geologist in charge of field work on South Georgia, 1975–76 and 1976–77.[2]
Sitka Bay sits west of Macdonald Dove, Script error: No such module "convert". west of Cape Buller. The names Sitka Bay and Buller Bay have both appeared for this feature on maps for many years. Following a survey of South Georgia in 1951 and 1952, the South Georgia Survey reported that this feature is known locally as Sitka Bay, and the name is approved on that basis.[3]
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