Larvik Harbor
| Larvik Harbor | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Land mass | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 28 ′ 48 ″ S , 62 ° 26 ′ 16 ″ W | |
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The Larvik Harbor (in Argentina Bahía Denise , in Chile Bahía Lagos ) is a small bay in the southwest of Brabant Island the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula .
The British geologists Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe (1901–1976) and Maxime Charles Lester (1891–1957) mapped them in the course of the British Imperial Antarctic Expedition (1920–1922) under the direction of John Lachlan Copes (1893–1947). They named it after the Norwegian town of Larvik , following a designation made between 1919 and 1920 by Johan Johannessen, Norwegian captain of the whaling ship Bombay . The name, which is common in Argentina, was named after one of the two ships of the Argentine Antarctic expedition, which was carried out between 1949 and 1950. In Chile, on the other hand, they were named after Miguel Lagos Grant (1900 - unknown), captain of the Presidente Pinto on a 1948 Antarctic voyage.
Web links
- Larvik Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Larvik Harbor on geographic.org (English)