Antarctic Haven

Coordinates: 72°2′N 23°7′W / 72.033°N 23.117°W / 72.033; -23.117
Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For the bay in South Georgia Island, see Antarctic Bay. For the bay in the Greenland Sea, see Antarctic Bay (Greenland).
Antarctic Haven
Antarctic Havn
Karlsbak Station
, abandoned

Antarctic Haven (Danish: Antarctic Havn)[1] is a bay in King Christian X Land, Northeastern Greenland.[2]

Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.

History

This natural harbour was named "Antarctics Hamn" by Swedish

S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.[1]

J. K. Tornøe advanced the hypothesis that this bay might correspond to the ‘Finnsbúdir’ of the Sagas of Icelanders.[3]

In the southern corner of the head of the bay there is a

meteorological facility and Karlsbak/LMU was its radio station.[4] The station was active in 1930–38 and again in 1946–59.[1]

Close to the building there is a memorial to Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad (1899 – 2001), who was using the Antarctic Haven hut as his residence when he wintered there as the Governor of Erik the Red's Land in the winter of 1932–33.[5] Nowadays the name "Karlsbak" is used for a mountain to the east of the bay.[1]

The historical Norwegian Antarctic Haven Station was restored in the summer 2001 by the Nanok East Greenland Fishing Company.[6] It was destroyed in 2002 by an avalanche.[7]

Geography

This northeast-facing bay is located in NE

Mesters Vig. There are drying flats at the head of the bay.[8]

The bay is mostly surrounded by high mountains. The Pictet Range is located to the west of the bay and Karlsbak to the southeast.[2]

Map of Northeastern Greenland
Helge Ingstad memorial in Antarctic Haven

Bibliography

  • Spencer Apollonio, Lands That Hold One Spellbound: A Story of East Greenland, 2008

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
  2. ^ a b "Antarctic Havn". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  3. ^ Tornøe, J.K. 1944: Lysstreif over Norgesveldets historie. Meddelelser Norges Svalbard-og Ishavsundersökelser 56, 218 pp
  4. ^ 'Jan S. Krogh.Nęrmere beskrivelse av kystradiostasjonene
  5. ^ "Helge Ingstad". Norsk Polarhistorie. Retrieved 4 August 2019.
  6. ^ Field report from the journey to Northeast Greenland in the summer 2001
  7. ^ Arctic - Spitsbergen and Cruise with Polar Bears, Northern Lights and Blue and Humpback whales
  8. ^ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 118

External links

Stub icon

This Greenland location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Antarctic_Haven&oldid=1147089475"