Waterpipe Beach
| Waterpipe Beach | ||
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| location | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Waters | Borge Bay | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ S , 45 ° 36 ′ 29 ″ W | |
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The Waterpipe Beach is a flat pebble beach on Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is on the west bank of Borge Bay .
Scientists from the British Discovery Investigations mapped it in 1933. This was repeated by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947. It is named after a water pipe that led from a pumping station on the southernmost lake of the Three Lakes Valley to this beach and the water supply for Norwegian whaling ships between Served in 1920 and 1930.
Web links
- Waterpipe Beach in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Waterpipe Beach on geographic.org (English)