Rethval Cove
| Rethval Cove | ||
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| Waters | Paal Harbor | |
| Land mass | Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 43 '16 " S , 45 ° 35' 38" W | |
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The Rethval Cove is a side bay of Paal Harbor on the east coast of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . Your entrance is between Rethval Point in the east and a landmark below Rusty Bluff in the west.
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey surveyed the bay between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 based on the name of the headland of the same name. It is named after Aktieselskabet Rethval , located in Oslo , Norway , which was the first company to operate whaling in the waters around the southern Orkney Islands between 1911 and 1912 .
Web links
- Rethval Cove in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)