Drygalski Fjord 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...

 1 mile (1.6 km) wide which recedes northwest 7 miles (11 km), entered immediately north of Nattriss Head

Nattriss Head

Nattriss Head is a small but prominent rock headland marking the south side of the entrance to Drygalski Fjord on the southeast coast of South Georgia. Charted by German Antarctic Expedition, 1911-12, under Filchner. It was named Nattriss Point for E.A. Nattriss, shipping officer to the Discovery...

 along the southeast coast of South Georgia.

According to L. Harrison Matthews

L. Harrison Matthews

Dr Leonard Harrison Matthews FRS was a British zoologist, especially known for his research and writings on marine mammals.-Life:Matthews was born in Bristol. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University...

, Drygalski Fjord might have been the place where Anthony de la Roché

Anthony de la Roché

Anthony de la Roché, born sometime in the 17th century, was an English merchant born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother...

 spent two weeks during his stay in the island in April 1675.

Charted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Filchner, and named for Professor Erich von Drygalski

Erich von Drygalski

Erich Dagobert von Drygalski was a German geographer, geophysicist and polar scientist, born in Königsberg, Province of Prussia....

, leader of the German Antarctic Expedition, 1901-03.