Antarctic Haven () is a

bay A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay. A large bay is usually called a ''gulf'', ''sea'', ''sound'', or ''bight''. A ''cove'' is a small, ci ...

in King Christian X Land, Northeastern

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. Administratively it lies in the

Northeast Greenland National Park Northeast Greenland National Park (, ) is the world's largest national park and the 10th largest protected area (the only larger protected areas consist mostly of sea). Established in 1974, the Northeast Greenland national park expanded to its p ...

area.

History

This natural harbour was named ''"Antarctics Hamn"'' by Swedish

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after his ship ''

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'', which anchored there on 20 August 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of

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.''Catalogue of place names in northern East Greenland'', Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland J. K. Tornøe advanced the hypothesis that this bay might correspond to the ‘Finnsbúdir’ of the

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. In the southern corner of the head of the bay there is a Norwegian hunting hut that originally had been known as "Karlsbak Station". It was built by Jonas Karlsbak and Odd Åmbak in 1930. The hut had a

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facility and Karlsbak/LMU was its

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station.Jan S. Krogh.''Nęrmere beskrivelse av kystradiostasjonene''
/ref> The station was active in 1930–38 and again in 1946–59. 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 Erik the Red's Land () was the name given by Norwegians to an area on the coast of eastern Greenland occupied by Norway in the early 1930s. It was named after Erik the Red, the founder of the first Norse or Viking settlements in Greenland in the ...

in the winter of 1932–33. Nowadays the name "Karlsbak" is used for a mountain to the east of the bay. The historical Norwegian Antarctic Haven Station was restored in the summer 2001 by the Nanok East Greenland Fishing Company. It was destroyed in 2002 by an

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Geography

This northeast-facing bay is located in NE Scoresby Land, at the southern end of the King Oscar Fjord, in the

Davy Sound The Davy Sound () is a sound in King Christian X Land, Northeast Greenland. Administratively it is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park zone. History The sound was named and put on the map by William Scoresby (1789 – 1857) in 1822 in h ...

area. It is one of the small branches of the King Oscar Fjord system. Its mouth opens between Cape Syenit to the northwest and Knivodden to the southeast, about southeast of Mesters Vig. There are drying flats at the head of the bay.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute'', p. 118 The bay is mostly surrounded by high mountains. The Pictet Range is located to the west of the bay and Karlsbak to the southeast.

Bibliography

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

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