Husvik
Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Barren and Parochlus Lake.
Mount Barren
Peak
Mount Barren is a mountain, 645 metres high, standing west of Husvik Harbour on the north coast of South Georgia. Its name is descriptive, and was probably given by the Discovery Investigations in 1926–30. Mount Barren is situated 3 km west of Husvik.
Parochlus Lake
Lake
Parochlus Lake is a shallow lake at the head of Karrakatta Valley, to the west-northwest of Husvik Harbor, South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990 after the midge Parochlus steinenii, whose larvae abound near the margins of the lake. Parochlus Lake is situated 2½ km west of Husvik.
Blechnum Peaks
Peak
Blechnum Peaks are three peaks, the highest 640 metres high, on the north–south ridge between Gulbrandsen Lake and Olsen Valley on the north coast of South Georgia. Blechnum Peaks is situated 3 km south of Husvik.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Leith Harbour.
Leith Harbour
Village
Photo: Harley D. Nygren, Public domain.
Leith Harbour, also known as Port Leith, was a whaling station on the northeast coast of South Georgia, established and operated by Christian Salvesen Ltd, Edinburgh. Leith Harbour is situated 4½ km north of Husvik.
Husvik
- Type: Locality
- Description: whaling station on South Georgia Island
- Category: whaling station
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.18018° or 54° 10′ 49″ southLongitude
-36.71034° or 36° 42′ 37″ westOpen location code
39Q5R79Q+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 5723089323OpenStreetMap feature
place=localityWikidata ID
Q121964
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Husvik” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوسفيك”
- Catalan: “Husvik”
- Chinese: “胡斯維克”
- Chinese: “胡斯维克”
- Dutch: “Husvik”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هوسفيك”
- French: “Husvik”
- German: “Husvik”
- Japanese: “フースヴィーク”
- Javanese: “Husvik”
- Malay: “Husvik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Husvik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Husvik”
- Norwegian: “Husvik”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Husvik”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Husvik”
- Spanish: “Husvik”
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