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Borge Bay

Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory Id 107876

Feature type: Bay

Origin

This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

• Borge Bay (Russia)
• Borge Bay (United States of America)
• Borge, bahía (Argentina)

Narrative

E coast of Signy Island, between Balin Point and Berntsen Point, was charted by Kapt. Petter Sørlle, Norwegian whaler, in 1912-13; further charted in 1913 by Kapt. (later Konsul) Hans Borge (1873-1946), Norwegian whaling manager and shipowner; Manager of the floating factory ship Polynesia at the South Orkney Islands, 1913-14; Manager, A/S Tønsberg Hvalfangeri, 1917-37. The bay was named Borge Harbour (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913; Marr, 1935, p.382). Queen(')s Bay (Sørlle, chart, 1913; BA, 1916, p.413; chart 3175, 7.vii.1933). Factory Cove (q.v.), S arm of the bay, was the site of a shore whaling station leased to Tønsberg Hvalfangeri by the FIG in 1920, and abandoned in 1926. Bruce Bukt, presumably after W.S. Bruce, Leader of SNAE (Bruce Island, q.v.) (Sørlle, chart, [1930]). A sketch survey of the S part of the bay was made by DI in 1927. Queens or Borge Bay (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929). Queens or Berge [sic] Bay (BA, 1930, p.54). Borge Bay (Chaplin, 1932, p.301; APC, 1955, p.6; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963; DOS 210 Signy Island sheet, 1-DOS 1973). The bay was re-surveyed by DI in January 1933 (BA chart 1775, 17.viii.1934). A FIDS (now BAS) station was established on Factory Cove, 14 March 1947 (Signy, q.v.). Bahïa Borge (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45). Since 1953 APC has applied the name Borge Bay according to the definition above, although previously this name and Queens Bay had been applied individually, and not always consistently, both to the main bay and to parts of that bay. Borge Harbor, as rejected form (USBGN, 1956, p.66). Further surveys of the bay were carried out by RN Hydrographic Survey Units in 1954-55 (from HMS Burghead Bay) and in 1964-65 (from HMS Protector). Bahía Borge (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 8)

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