Falkland Harbor
| Falkland Harbor | ||
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| Waters | Lewthwaite Strait | |
| Land mass | Powell Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 ′ 59 ″ S , 45 ° 3 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Falkland Harbor ( Norwegian Falklandhavna ) is a natural harbor in the southwest of Powell Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands .
The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped the bay between 1912 and 1913. It is named after the factory ship Falkland of the Rethval company from Oslo , which at that time operated for whaling in the waters around the southern Orkney Islands. Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations converted the Norwegian name into English in 1933.
Web links
- Falkland Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Falkland Harbor on geographic.org (English)