Stensholt Bay
| Stensholt Bay | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Land mass | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 52 '50 " S , 36 ° 4' 34" W | |
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The Stensholt Bay is a bay at the southern end of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It lies between Green Island and Smaaland Cove .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2009. It was named after Carl Gustav Stensholt (1882 – ≈1963), captain of the whaling- equipped sailing ship Derwent , on which Stensholt's son was born in Ocean Harbor in 1915 .
Web links
- Stensholt Bay . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)