Antarctic Haven ( da, Antarctic Havn) is a bay in

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, Northeastern

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. Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park area.

History

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

Alfred Gabriel Nathorst Alfred Gabriel Nathorst (7 November 1850 – 20 January 1921) was a Swedish Arctic explorer, geologist, and palaeobotanist. Life He was born in Väderbrunn in Sweden. Nathorst's interest in geology was awoken by Charles Lyell’s ‘’Pr ...

after his ship '' Antarctic'', which anchored there on 20 August 1899 during the Swedish Greenland Expedition in search of survivors of S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897.''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 Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

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 meteorological 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 Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 – 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadow ...

(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 ( no, Eirik Raudes 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 settlement ...

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

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. It was destroyed in 2002 by an

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Geography

This northeast-facing bay is located in NE

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, at the southern end of the King Oscar Fjord, in the

Davy Sound The Davy Sound ( da, Davy Sund) 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 ...

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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Antarctic Havn
Bays of Greenland Ruins in Greenland 1932 establishments in Norway History of Greenland {{Greenland-geo-stub

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