Spence Harbor
| Spence Harbor | ||
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| Waters | Lewthwaite Strait | |
| Land mass | Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 41 ′ 0 ″ S , 45 ° 9 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Spence Harbor is a bay on the east coast of Coronation Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is 1.5 km south of The Turret headland .
The British whaling captain George Powell (1794-1824) and his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer discovered the bay together in December 1821. The bay was named by Powell, but the naming background has not been passed down.
Web links
- Spence Harbor in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Spence Harbor on geographic.org (English)