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Sandefjord Bay (Coronation Island)

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lies in the entrance of the bay. Just southwest of Spine Island is Mainsail Rock, which is the largest and easternmost of a chain of three rocks trending in a northwest–southeast direction off the southeast side of
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constructed a hut on Sandefjord Bay in 1945 with the intention of establishing a research base. However, there were never enough personnel to occupy the base and it was abandoned in favor of Station C on
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without ever being used. It was last seen standing in September 1950, and had collapsed by February 1955. Only debris remains.
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during their joint cruise in December 1821. The name Sandefjord, presumably for
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The bay was discovered and roughly charted by Captain
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Sandefjord Bay
60°37′S 46°03′W / 60.617°S 46.050°W / -60.617; -46.050
Coronation Island
South Orkney Islands
Antarctica
Monroe Island
Spine Island
Monroe Island
George Powell
Nathaniel Palmer
Sandefjord, Norway
Norwegian whaling industry
Petter Sørlle
Norwegian
Discovery Investigations
British Antarctic Survey
Ferguslie Peninsula



"Sandefjord Bay"
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United States Department of the Interior


"Mainsail Rock"
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United States Geological Survey
United States Department of the Interior

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