Rustad Bay
| Rustad Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | Annenkov Island | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 30 ′ 6 ″ S , 37 ° 5 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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The Rustad Bay is a small bay on the southwest side of Annenkov Iceland off the south coast of South Georgia in the South Atlantic .
The South Georgia Survey mapped them as part of its survey campaign, which ran from 1951 to 1957. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1958 after the Norwegian biologist Ditlef Rustad (1901-1993), participant in the first Antarctic voyage financed by the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Lars Christensen with the ship Norvegia (1927-1928), during which he did biology on Annenkov Island Had collected material.
Web links
- Rustad Bay in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Rustad Bay on geographic.org (English)