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Bay in Antarctica
Whalers Bay
is a small
bay
entered between
Fildes Point
and
Penfold Point
at the east side of
Port Foster
,
Deception Island
, in the
South Shetland Islands
of
Antarctica
. The bay was so named by the
French Antarctic Expedition
, 1908?10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by
whalers
.
Historic site
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The site has been designated a
Historic Site or Monument
(HSM 71), following a proposal by Chile and Norway to the
Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
. It comprises all pre-1970 remains on the shore of the bay. These include artefacts and structural remains from the early whaling period (1906?1912) associated with Captain Adolfus Andresen of the Chilean Sociedad Ballenera de Magallanes, the Norwegian
Hektor Whaling Station
(1912?1931), the period of British scientific and mapping activity (1944?1969 by
Operation Tabarin
, Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey,
British Antarctic Survey
), and a
cemetery
containing 35 burials and a memorial to ten men lost at sea. It also commemorates and acknowledges the historic value of other events that occurred there.
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References
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from
"Whalers Bay (South Shetland Islands)"
.
Geographic Names Information System
.
United States Geological Survey
.
Further reading
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External links
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62°59′S
60°34′W
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62.983°S 60.567°W
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-62.983; -60.567