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22 relations: Admiralty (United Kingdom), Brutus Island, Cape Town, Cook Bay (South Georgia), Discovery Investigations, Ernest Shackleton, Factory ship, Fuelling station, Glasgow, Gross register tonnage, Hay Peak, History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Hut Point Peninsula, Leith Harbour, Norway, Olav V, Seal hunting, Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, South Georgia, Stromness Bay, UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, Whaling.
- Ports and harbours of South Georgia
- Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
The Admiralty was a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for the command of the Royal Navy until 1964, historically under its titular head, the Lord High Admiral – one of the Great Officers of State.
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Brutus Island
Brutus Island is a small island lying near the center of Prince Olav Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia.
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Cape Town
Cape Town is the legislative capital of South Africa.
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Cook Bay (South Georgia)
Cook Bay is an irregular bay, wide at its entrance between Cape Crewe and Black Head, narrowing into two western arms, Lighthouse Bay and Prince Olav Harbour, along the north coast of South Georgia.
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Discovery Investigations
The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean.
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Ernest Shackleton
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
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Factory ship
A factory ship, also known as a fish processing vessel, is a large ocean-going vessel with extensive on-board facilities for processing and freezing caught fish or whales.
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Fuelling station
Fuelling stations, also known as coaling stations, are repositories of fuel (initially coal and later oil) that have been located to service commercial and naval vessels.
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Glasgow
Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.
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Gross register tonnage
Gross register tonnage (GRT, grt, g.r.t., gt), or gross registered tonnage, is a ship's total internal volume expressed in "register tons", each of which is equal to.
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Hay Peak
Hay Peak is a peak rising to at the head of Prince Olav Harbour in Cook Bay, South Georgia.
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History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
The history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is relatively recent.
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Hut Point Peninsula
Hut Point Peninsula is a long, narrow peninsula from wide and long, projecting south-west from the slopes of Mount Erebus on Ross Island, Antarctica.
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Leith Harbour
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. Prince Olav Harbour and Leith Harbour are Ports and harbours of South Georgia and whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Norway
Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.
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Olav V
Olav V (born Prince Alexander of Denmark; 2 July 1903 – 17 January 1991) was King of Norway from 1957 until his death in 1991.
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Seal hunting
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals.
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Shackleton–Rowett Expedition
The Shackleton–Rowett Expedition (1921–22) was Sir Ernest Shackleton's last Antarctic project, and the final episode in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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South Georgia
South Georgia is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
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Stromness Bay
Stromness Bay is a bay wide, entered between Cape Saunders and Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia.
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UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI).
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
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See also
Ports and harbours of South Georgia
- Blue Whale Harbour
- Gold Harbour
- Leith Harbour
- Prince Olav Harbour
Whaling stations of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- Godthul
- Grytviken
- Husvik
- Leith Harbour
- Ocean Harbour
- Prince Olav Harbour
- Stromness, South Georgia
References
Also known as Dinghy Point, East Bay (Antarctica), Fine Point, Point Abrahamsen, Prince Olaf Harbour, Prince Olav Harbor, Razor Point, Sheep Point, Sheer Point, Squire Point.