Foyn Coast
The Foyn Coast is that portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Alexander and Cape Northrop. It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under Captain Carl Anton Larsen, who named it for Svend Foyn, a Norwegian whaler of Tønsberg whose invention of the grenade harpoon greatly facilitated modern whaling.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Foyn Coast
- Type: Shore
- Description: antarctic Peninsula coast
- Categories: coast and landform
- Location: Antarctica
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Foyn Coast” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Foyn kostaldea”
- Bulgarian: “Бряг Фойн”
- Cebuano: “Foyn”
- Chinese: “弗因海岸”
- Dutch: “Foyn Coast”
- French: “Foyn Coast”
- German: “Foyn Coast”
- German: “Foyn-Küste”
- Hebrew: “חוף פוין”
- Italian: “costa di Foyn”
- Italian: “Costa di Foyn”
- Latvian: “Foina krasts”
- Latvian: “Foyn Coast”
- Latvian: “Foyn”
- Low German: “Foyn Coast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foyn Coast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foyn Land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foyn Coast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foyn Land”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foynkysten”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Svend Foyn Coast”
- Norwegian: “Foyn Coast”
- Polish: “Foyn Coast”
- Polish: “Wybrzeże Foyna”
- Spanish: “Costa Foyn”
- Spanish: “Foyn, costa”
- Swedish: “Foyn Coast”
- Swedish: “Foyn”
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