Factory Cove
| Factory Cove | ||
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| Waters | Borge Bay | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ 29 " S , 45 ° 35 ′ 49" W | |
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The Factory Cove (English for factory bay ) is a small bay on the west coast of Signy Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located between Knife Point and Berntsen Point in the southern part of Borge Bay .
The Norwegian Hans Engelbert Borge (1873-1946), captain of the whaler Polynesia , roughly mapped them between 1913 and 1914. On a map by Borges compatriot Petter Sørlle (1884–1933) the bay is marked as Borge Havna . Borge's name was later transferred to the bay, whose subsidiary bays include Factory Cove. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations explored the latter in 1927 and gave it a new name. It is named after a small factory that was in operation on the shores of the bay from the 1920s to the 1930s for processing whale carcasses .
Web links
- Factory Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Factory Cove on geographic.org (English)