Horseshoe Harbor

Horseshoe Harbor
	Aerial view of Horseshoe Harbor with Mawson Station (July 2004)
Waters	Holme Bay , Cooperation Lake , Southern Ocean
Land mass	Mac Robertson Land , East Antarctica
Geographical location	67 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E Coordinates: 67 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ S , 62 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E

The Horseshoe Harbor (from English horseshoe 'horseshoe' and English harbor 'port' ) is a side bay of Holme Bay on the Mawson coast of the East Antarctic Mac Robertson Land . It is bounded by the East Arm and West Arm headlands .

Norwegian cartographers mapped it using aerial photographs taken during the Lars Christensen Expedition in 1936/37 . Additional aerial photographs were taken during the US Operation Highjump (1946–1947). A team led by the Australian polar explorer Phillip Law , who descriptively named it after its horseshoe shape , visited it as part of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and selected it as the location for the Mawson Station , which was completed on February 13, 1954 .

literature

William James Mills: Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia . ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2003, ISBN 9781576074220 , p. 389.
Tom Griffiths: Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica . Harvard University Press, Cambridge (UK) 2007, ISBN 9780674026339 , p. 132.