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Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh. The station was in operation from 1909 until 1965. It was the largest of seven whaling stations, situated near the mouth of Stromness Bay. One man prominently involved in setting up Leith Harbour was William Storm Harrison.
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour. Husvik initially began as a floating, offshore factory site in 1907. In 1910, a land station was constructed and remained operational until 1930; business resumed again between 1945 and 1960. Husvik Harbour was also the site of the third introduction of reindeer to South Georgia in 1925.
Stromness Bay is a bay 3 miles (4.8 km) wide, entered between Cape Saunders and Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia.
Busen Point or Busen Peninsula is a headland forming the southeast side of the entrance to Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. It lies on the Lewin Peninsula between Cumberland West Bay and Stromness Bay.
Ems Rock is a rock midway between Harrison Point and Busen Point in the south part of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations personnel under Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin in 1927 and 1929, and was named in 1957 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the sailing vessel Ems, owned by the Tonsberg Hvalfangeri, Husvik, located at the head of Husvik Harbour in Stromness Bay.
Bucentaur Rock is the outermost of three rocks lying close northeast of Busen Point, at the southeast side of the entrance to Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The name Low Rock was given for this feature during a survey in 1927, but this name is used elsewhere in the Antarctic. Following the survey by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–52, the feature was renamed Bucentaur Rock after the floating factory Bucentaur, which was anchored at Husvik in the early years of the whaling station after 1907, and from which the Husvik transport Busen and the catchers Busen I, II, III, etc., derive their names.
Alert Channel is a small channel between Whaler Channel and Bar Rocks, and leading to the head of Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel in 1928 and named after Alert, the motorboat used by the DI survey party.
Alert Cove is a small cove lying south of Kanin Point in Husvik Harbor, Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel in 1928 and is named after Alert, the motorboat used by the DI survey party.
The Bar Rocks are a group of low rocks which lie near the head of Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. They were charted by DI personnel in 1928 and so named by them, presumably because their presence obstructs or impedes vessels approaching the head of the harbor.
Berntsen Ridge is a ridge on the north coast of South Georgia, running west from Tonsberg Point and rising to about 580 metres (1,900 ft) at the west end. The ridge partly occupies the peninsula between Stromness Harbor and Husvik Harbor. It was named in 1991 by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Captain Søren Berntsen, a Norwegian whaler who established Husvik whaling station for Tonsberg Hvalfangeri and became its first manager in 1910; later Master of SS Orwell, a whaling factory ship.
Brain Island is an island at the north side of Husvik Harbor, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted and named by DI personnel in 1928.
Olsen Valley is a valley extending from Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay to Carlita Bay in Cumberland West Bay, on the north side of South Georgia. The feature was known to early whalers and sealers at South Georgia. It was surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Nils E. Olsen, Manager of Tonsberg Hvalfangeri, Husvik, 1950–56.
Whaler Channel is the northernmost of three small channels leading into Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1930 British Admiralty chart.
Point Purvis is a point lying 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) southwest of Tonsberg Point in Husvik Harbor, South Georgia. Charted by DI in 1928 and named after Petty Officer J. Purvis, Royal Navy, a member of the DI hydrographic survey party in this area in the motorboat Alert, 1928–30.
For the point in Barbados, see Harrison Point, Barbados
Main Channel is a small channel lying south of the Bar Rocks and leading to the head of Husvik Harbor in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The name appears to be first used on a 1930 British Admiralty chart.
Kanin Point is a rocky point lying 2 nautical miles (4 km) west-southwest of Kelp Point on the south side of Husvik Harbor, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. The descriptive name "Rocky Point" was given for this feature, probably by Discovery Investigations personnel who surveyed Husvik Harbor in 1928, but this name is used elsewhere in the Antarctic. The South Georgia Survey, 1951–52, reported that this feature is known at the Husvik whaling station as Kanin Point. The name presumably arose from one of several attempts made since 1872 to introduce rabbits into the island. Kanin Point is approved on the basis of local usage.
Tønsberg Point is the east extremity of a low rocky peninsula which projects into Stromness Bay, South Georgia, separating Stromness Harbor on the north from Husvik Harbor on the south. The name was in use as early as 1912 and derives from the Tønsberg Hvalfangeri, a Norwegian whaling company with worked at Husvik Harbor.
Karrakatta Valley is a short valley trending west-northwest from Husvik Harbor, Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was named after the hulk Karrakatta on a slipway at the abandoned whaling station at the head of Husvik Harbor. Built in Oslo in 1912, she served as a whale catcher off Western Australia, and was last used at the slipway to provide steam to the adjacent engineering shop, probably until 1959. The valley was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990.
Kelp Point is a point fringed by kelp, marking the south side of the entrance to Husvik Harbor, the southern arm of Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel in the period 1926–30.
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