Larsen Harbour
Larsen Harbour is a narrow 2.6 miles long inlet of indenting volcanic rocks and sheeted dykes known as the Larsen Harbour Formation. It is a branch of Drygalski Fjord, entered 2.5 miles west-northwest of Nattriss Head, at the southeast end of South Georgia Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mair and Mount Clara.
Mount Mair
Peak
Photo: Christopher Michel, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Mair is a mountain rising to 780 m between Brandt Cove and Larsen Harbor, Drygalski Fjord, South Georgia. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Bruce F.
Mount Clara
Peak
Mount Clara is a peak rising to about 790 metres to the east of Mount Normann and south of Larsen Harbour, in southeast South Georgia. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel in 1927.
Slossarczyk Crag
Peak
Slossarczyk Crag is a mountain crag, 805 m, between Doubtful Bay and Esbensen Bay at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57.
Larsen Harbour
- Type: Bay
- Also known as: “Larsen Harbor”
- Categories: inlet and body of water
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.83739° or 54° 50′ 15″ southLongitude
-36.0102° or 36° 0′ 37″ westElevation
143 metres (469 feet)Open location code
39Q55X7Q+2WOpenStreetMap ID
node 9112166888OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Larsen Harbour” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “拉森港”
- German: “Larsen Harbour”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Larsen Harbour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Larsen Harbour”
- Norwegian: “Larsen Harbour”
- Spanish: “Bahia Larsen”
- Spanish: “Bahía Larsen”
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