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. Stromness Bay, like Leith...
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burgh with a parish around the outside with the town of Stromness as its capital. The name "Stromness" comes from the Old Norse Straumnes. Straumr refers...
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early charts, but since about 1920, the name Stromness has been consistently used. Its name, Stromness, derives from the similarly named town in the...
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key approaches: at Grytviken to protect Cumberland Bay and at Leith Harbour to protect Stromness Bay. The batteries still survive. They were manned by...
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stations, Husvik, Stromness, and Leith, were linked by a rough track along the beach. During the whaling era, whalers from Stromness and Husvik would use...
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Canada Alert Airport Alert Bay, British Columbia, Canada Alert Channel, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia Alert Cove, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia CS Alert...
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was the largest of seven whaling stations, situated near the mouth of Stromness Bay. It is named after Leith, the harbour area of Edinburgh, Christian Salvesen's...
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Island, South Atlantic Stromness Bay, South Georgia Island Stromness, a community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada RFA Stromness (A344), later USNS Saturn...
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35 km (22 miles) across the island to the Norwegian whaling station at Stromness Bay. The crew were too exhausted, and the James Caird too battered, for...
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January 1915, Endurance was within 200 nmi (370 km) of her destination, Vahsel Bay. By the following morning, heavy pack ice was sighted and in the afternoon...
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whistle sound from Stromness, "the first sound created by an outside human agency that had come to our ears since we left Stromness Bay in December 1914"...
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Harbour Point is a point separating Leith Harbour and Stromness Harbour, in Stromness Bay, South Georgia. This descriptive name was in use as early as...
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miles west of Stromness. From there the unit would travel across the glacier, and reconnoitre Leith, Husvik, Stromness and East Fortuna bay. The SAS chose...
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the Fortuna Glacier in the process. Thirty-six hours later they reached Stromness whaling station. When Argentina militarily occupied the Falkland Islands...
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contribution. Caird himself died two months prior to Shackleton's arrival at Stromness, South Georgia. Thus, Caird died without ever learning of the successful...
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South Georgian mountains from King Haakon Bay (where Shackleton had landed nearly 100 years prior) to Stromness. The expedition very carefully matched legacy...
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entrance to Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia island. It lies on the Lewin Peninsula in between Stromness Bay and Cumberland West Bay. The name...
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2011. In January and February 2013, the Busen herd, in the Stromness Bay Area between Fortuna Bay and Jason Point, 2,090 reindeer were eradicated by a combination...
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of Holborn Head and berths a ferry which links mainland Scotland with Stromness in Orkney. Holborn Head Lighthouse is about one kilometre south of the...
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two four-inch shore guns (still present) protecting Cumberland Bay and Stromness Bay, which were operated by volunteers from among the Norwegian whalers...
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