Horseshoe Harbor (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Horseshoe Harbor (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Harbour (3)
This name originates from United States of America. It is part of the United States Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
Harbor in Holme Bay, Mac. Robertson Land, formed by the horseshoe-shaped rock projections of West Arm and East Arm. Mawson Station is at the head of this harbor. Roughly mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936-37. Rephotographed by USN Operation HighJump, 1946-47. First visited by an ANARE party under Phillip Law, who selected this site for Mawson Station, established on Feb. 13, 1954.
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