Tonsberg Cove
| Tonsberg Cove | ||
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| Waters | Scotia Lake | |
| Land mass | Coronation Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 31 '59 " S , 45 ° 54' 58" W | |
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The Tønsberg Cove is a bay on the north coast of Coronation Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located between 1.5 km southeast of Penguin Point .
The Norwegian whaling captain Petter Sørlle mapped it between 1912 and 1913. He named it Tønsberg Fjord after Tønsberg Hvalfangeri, a whaling company from Tønsberg , Norway , which operated a permanent whaling station on the South Orkney Islands in the 1920s and 1930s. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee adapted this designation in 1960 to the actual nature.
Web links
- Tønsberg Cove in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tønsberg Cove on geographic.org (English)