
Cape Vik () is a cape marking the west side of the entrance to
Marshall Bay
Marshall Bay () is a bay , lying between Cape Vik and Cape Hansen on the south side of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. It was roughly charted in 1912–13 by Petter Sørlle, a Norwegian whaling captain. The bay was rech ...
on the south coast of
Coronation Island
Coronation Island is the largest of the South Orkney Islands, long and from wide. The island extends in a general east–west direction, is mainly ice-covered and comprises numerous bays, glaciers and peaks, the highest rising to .
History
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, in the
South Orkney Islands
The South Orkney Islands are a group of islands in the Southern Ocean, about north-east of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula[Petter Sorlle
Petter may refer to:
People:
*Petter (given name)
*W. E. W. Petter, English aircraft designer
*Arlie Petters, a Belizean-American mathematical physicist
*Tom Petters, former CEO and chairman of Petters Group Worldwide
Place names:
*Petter Bay, a ...]
in 1912–13.
Maling Peak
Maling Peak () is a mountain high and is the southernmost of two conspicuous peaks northwest of Cape Vik on the south coast of Coronation Island in the South Orkney Islands, Antarctica. It was roughly surveyed in 1933 by Discovery Investigatio ...
is just northwest of the cape.
Coronation Island
Headlands of the South Orkney Islands
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