The Bay of The Whooper Swans is about 7 miles (12 km) long and a mile (1,6 km) wide. Two short valleys branch to the south of the bay. There the Norwegians operated their herring- and whale processing factories during the last decades of the 19th century.  In 1995 an avalanche killed 19 of the inhabitants.

During that period, many more people lived on the bay than nowadays. The only remaining settlement is the fishing hamlet Sudavik.