Stene Point
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Coordinates | 60 ° 39 ′ S , 45 ° 42 ′ W | |
location | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
Waters | Weddell Sea |
The Stene Point is a headland on the south coast of Coronation Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located 2.5 km west of Cape Vik .
Surveys were carried out by scientists from the British Discovery Investigations in 1933 and from 1948 to 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the headland in 1955 after Karl O. Stene (1875 - unknown), captain of the whaling factory ship D / S Normanna from the Norwegian Sandefjord , which operated between 1912 and 1913 in the waters around the South Orkney Islands.
Web links
- Stene Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Stene Point on geographic.org (English)