Norway Bight (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Norway Bight (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bay
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:
between Meier Point and Mansfield Point, S Coronation Island (q.v.), was roughly charted by nineteenth-century sealers; called Bahía Iceberg, in error for Iceberg Bay (q.v.) (Riso Patron S., 1908, end map); further charted by Sørlle, 1912-13, and named by him Norway Fjord after his native country (Sørlle and Borge, chart, 1913); recharted by DI in 1933. Norway Bight (BA chart 3175, 7.vii.1933; 1775, 17.viii.1934; APC, 1955, p.16; DOS 510 South Orkney Islands, West Sheet, 1963). Norway Bay (France. SHM, 1937, p.389). Ensenada Norway (Argentina. CNA, 1947, map p.45; Pierrou, 1970, p.555). Norway Light [sic] (FIG, 1949, p.35). Caleta Norway (Moneta, 1951, end map [1]). The feature was surveyed by FIDS from Signy, 1956-58. Ensenada Newary [sic] (Argentina. IGM map 3738, 1958). Zaliv Noruey (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961).
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