Løken Pond
| Løken Pond | ||
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| Geographical location | South Georgia | |
| Drain | to Burnet Cove | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 14 '46 " S , 36 ° 29' 37" W | |
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The Løken Pond is a pond on the Thatcher Peninsula on the north coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located east of Burnet Cove on the east bank of Maiviken Bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after the Lutheran clergyman Kristen Løken (1885-1975) from Lillehammer , Norway , the first pastor of South Georgia, who worked in Grytviken from 1912 to 1914 and had overseen the construction of the local church there.
Web links
- Løken Pond in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Løken Pond on geographic.org (English)