Blue Whale Harbour is a small, sheltered anchorage entered 1 miles (1.6 km) west-southwest of Cape Constance

Cape Constance

Cape Constance is a cape that marks the northern tip of the peninsula between Antarctic Bay and Possession Bay on the north coast of South Georgia. Cape Constance was named in about 1912, after Constance Greene Allardyce, wife of Sir William L. Allardyce, Governor of the Falkland Islands, 1904–15....

, along the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted in 1930 by DI

Discovery Investigations

The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean. They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918...

 personnel. The blue whale

Blue Whale

The blue whale is a marine mammal belonging to the suborder of baleen whales . At in length and or more in weight, it is the largest known animal to have ever existed....

is a commercially important species which is widely distributed in polar and subpolar waters; numbers are now very small. Ports in Antarctica have one purpose and one purpose only to receive supplies through shipments and by air transport and distribute them among the bases.