Jacobsen Bight is a bight

Bight (geography)

In geography, bight has two meanings. A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature—usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water....

 4 miles (6 km) wide, indenting the south coast of South Georgia between Larvik Cone

Larvik Cone

Larvik Cone is a low but prominent scree cone, 425 m, on the promontory between Newark Bay and Jacobsen Bight, on the south coast of South Georgia. Roughly sketched by the British South Georgia Expedition, 1954–55, and named Larvik Peak from association with nearby Larvik. The SGS, 1956–57,...

 and Cape Darnley

Cape Darnley

Cape Darnley is a cape at the southeast side of Jacobsen Bight on the south-central coast of South Georgia. The name dates back to about 1920 and was given for E.R. Darnley of the Colonial Office, Chairman of the Discovery Committee from 1923 to 1933....

. The name "Sukkertopp bukta" (Sugarloaf Bay) was used by Olaf Holtedahl

Olaf Holtedahl

Olaf Holtedahl, , was a geologist who was a winner of the Wollaston Medal. He was elected member of the Royal Society in 1961.- Bibliography :...

 in 1929 for the whole of the coast between Cape Darnley and Sandefjord, which was shown on his map as one 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...

. The name "Zuckerspitzenbucht" was used for the northwestern of two bays shown on this same stretch of coast by Ludwig Kohl-Larsen

Ludwig Kohl-Larsen

Ludwig Kohl-Larsen was a German physician, amateur anthropologist, and explorer.-Biography:...

 in 1930. The SGS, 1951-52, surveyed this coast in detail and confirmed the existence of two bays. As the names derived from Mount Sugartop

Mount Sugartop

Mount Sugartop is a prominent, partly snow-covered mountain, 2,325 m, standing 5 miles northwest of Mount Paget in the Allardyce Range of South Georgia. The name "Sugarloaf Peak" has appeared on maps for this feature for many years, but the SGS, following a survey of South Georgia in 1951-52,...

 are misleading (the mountain

Mountain

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 does not dominate the bay) and as none of the existing names for the feature are used locally, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1957 proposed a new name. Jacobsen Bight is for Fridthjof Jacobsen (1874-1933), who worked at the Compania Argentina de Pesca station at Grytviken

Grytviken

Grytviken is the principal settlement in the British territory of South Georgia in the South Atlantic. It was so named in 1902 by the Swedish surveyor Johan Gunnar Andersson who found old English try pots used to render seal oil at the site. It is the best harbour on the island, consisting of a...

, 1904-21, and later became vice president of the company.