Narval Bay
| Narval Bay | ||
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| Waters | Icefjord | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 2 ′ 29 ″ S , 37 ° 41 ′ 1 ″ W | |
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| width | 2.5 km | |
The Narval Bay is a 2.5 km wide bay on the south coast of South Georgia . It is located on the north side of the ice fjord .
The Scottish geologist David Ferguson named it during his visit to South Georgia (1912-1913) as North Bay (English for North Bay ). Since the North Bay , a side bay of Prince Olav Harbor , was already so named, the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee decided in 1957 to rename it. The new name giver is the 1929 built whaler Narval , which was owned by the Compañía Argentina de Pesca in 1934 .
Web links
- Narval Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Narval Bay on geographic.org (English)