Williams Haven
| Williams Haven | ||
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| Waters | Weddell Sea | |
| Land mass | Signy Island , South Orkney Islands | |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 40 ′ 34 " S , 45 ° 37 ′ 41" W | |
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The Williams Haven is a bay in the northwest of Signy Iceland in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is located 300 m southwest of North Point . There is a large cave in the cliff on the north bank of the bay .
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1991 after David Donaldson Wynn-Williams (1946-2002), who worked as a microbiologist for the British Antarctic Survey from 1974 and was involved in two Antarctic winter and six summer campaigns on Signy Island.
Web links
- Williams Haven in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Williams Haven on geographic.org (English)