Filer Haven
| Filer Haven | ||
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| Waters | Orwell Bight | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 ′ 41 ″ S , 45 ° 34 ′ 59 ″ W | |
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The Filer Haven is a small bay in the southeast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . On the east side of the Gourlay Peninsula , it lies between Pantomime Point and Pageant Point .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the Bay on 20 December 1974 after the British biologist John Roger Filer (1937-1961) from the British Antarctic Survey , who on 13 February 1961 during the investigation of nests of breeding here sheathbills by a fall was killed from around 30 m high cliffs .
Web links
- Filer Haven in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Filer Haven on geographic.org (English)