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Whalers Bay is a small bay entered between Fildes Point and Penfold Point at the east side of Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. The bay was so named by the French Antarctic Expedition , 1908–10, under Charcot, because of its use at that time by whalers .
The centre of the island has been flooded by the sea to form a large bay, now called Port Foster, about 10 km (6.2 mi) long and 7 km (4.3 mi) wide. The bay has a narrow entrance, just 500 m (1,640 ft) wide, called Neptune's Bellows. The port is a basin with a flat floor up to 170 m (560 ft) deep with several small submarine cones and domes.
Whale Cove (ᑎᑭᕋᕐᔪᐊᖅ in Inuktitut syllabics) (Tikirarjuaq, meaning "long point"), is a hamlet located 74 km (46 mi) south southwest of Rankin Inlet, 145 km (90 mi) northeast of Arviat, in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada, on the western shore of Hudson Bay.
Whaler's Bay is located where the word Svalbard is written in this figure. Whaler's Bay is a bay in Svalbard in the Arctic Ocean . The former whaling grounds to the north of Nordaustlandet (roughly 81°N 10°E / 81°N 10°E / 81; 10 ( Whaler's Bay, Arctic Ocean ) ), the second largest island of the Svalbard archipelago are ...
Whalers Bay or Whaler's Bay can refer to: Whalers Bay (Svalbard) Whalers Bay (South Shetland Islands) Whalers Bay Whaling Site, Thistle Island, on Thistle Island ...
Yankee Harbour was known to both American sealers and the British (who called it Hospital Cove) as early as 1820, and this name is now established in international usage. Port Foster , the crater harbour of Deception Island , has at times also been referred to as Yankee Harbour.
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Paradise Harbour) is a wide embayment behind Lemaire Island and Bryde Island, indenting the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica, between Duthiers Point and Leniz The name was first applied by whalers operating in the vicinity and was in use by 1920.