Karrakatta Valley
| Karrakatta Valley | ||
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| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | Block Lake , Parochlus Lake | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 10 '27 " S , 36 ° 43' 29" W | |
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The Karrakatta Valley short valley on the north coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It extends from Husvik Harbor in a west-northwest direction.
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1990 after the whaling ship Karrakatta , built in Norway in 1912 , which, after its active service off the coast of Western Australia, functioned as a steam generator for the slipway for landing whale cadavers in Stromness until around 1959.
Web links
- Karrakatta Valley in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Karrakatta Valley on geographic.org (English)