Foyn Harbor
| Foyn Harbor | ||
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 Wreck of the Norwegian factory ship Guvernøren off Enterprise Island in Foyn Harbor |
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| Waters | Wilhelmina Bay | |
| Land mass | Enterprise Island and Nansen Island | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 33 ′ 14 ″ S , 62 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ W | |
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| Islands | Solstreif Island , Thor Island | |
The Foyn Harbor is an anchorage off the Danco Coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . In Wilhelmina Bay it lies between Nansen Island and Enterprise Island .
The British geologists Maxime Charles Lester (1891–1957) and Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (1901–1976) took a survey between 1921 and 1922 as part of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920–1922) led by John Lachlan Copes (1893–1947) in front. The anchorage is named after the factory ship Svend Foyn , which was anchored here from 1921 to 1922.
Web links
- Foyn Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Foyn Harbor on geographic.org (English)