Veier Head
| Veier Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 28 ′ S , 61 ° 45 ′ W | |
| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| coast | Oskar II coast | |
| Waters | Adie inlet | |
| Waters 2 | Stratton Inlet | |
The Veier Head is a towering and snow-covered headland at the Oskar-II. coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . At the southern end of the Veier Peninsula , a junction of the Jason Peninsula , it separates the entrance to Adie Inlet in the west from the entrance to Stratton Inlet in the east.
Søren Andersen, first mate on board the Jason during the Antarctic voyage (1892-1894) of the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic explorer Carl Anton Larsen , who mistakenly thought it was an island , discovered it on December 9, 1893 and named it Veier Øen (Norwegian for Veier Island ). It is named after Andersen's hometown Veierland in Vestfold . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee translated this designation into English in 1958 in an adapted form.
Web links
- Veier Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Veier Head on geographic.org (English)