Queen Maud Bay is a V-shaped bay 2.5 miles (4.0 km) wide at the entrance, lying immediately north of Nunez Peninsula along the south coast of South Georgia. Roughly charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, it was named prior to 1922 for Queen Maud, wife of King Haakon VII of Norway, probably by Norwegian whalers who frequented this coast.
Coordinates: 54°14′S 37°23′W / 54.233°S 37.383°W / -54.233; -37.383 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Queen Maud Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
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