Stene Point

	Stene Point
	Geographical location
Coordinates	60 ° 39 ′ S , 45 ° 42 ′ W 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.

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