Maiviken

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Maiviken
View of the Maiviken with Camp Peak (left) and Rocky Point (right of the center of the picture)

View of the Maiviken with Camp Peak (left) and Rocky Point (right of the center of the picture)

Waters Cumberland Bay
Land mass South Georgia
Geographical location 54 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  S , 36 ° 30 ′ 21 ″  W Coordinates: 54 ° 14 ′ 46 ″  S , 36 ° 30 ′ 21 ″  W
Maiviken (South Georgia)
Maiviken

Maiviken is a small bay at the northern end of the Thatcher Peninsula in Cumberland Bay on the north coast of South Georgia . Your entrance is between Rocky Point in the west and Mai Point in the east.

It was mapped during the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) under the direction of Otto Nordenskjöld . It was named after the May day in 1902, on which expedition participants sailed the bay. The original name Majviken changed to the Norwegian spelling over the years.

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