Karrakatta Valley () is a short valley trending west-northwest from
Husvik Harbor
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. Husvik initially began as a floating, offshore factory sit ...
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Stromness Bay,
South Georgia
South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. It was named after the hulk ''Karrakatta'' on a slipway at the abandoned whaling station at the head of Husvik Harbor. Built in Oslo in 1912, she served as a whale catcher off
Western Australia, and was last used at the slipway to provide steam to the adjacent engineering shop, probably until 1959. The valley was named by the
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1990.
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Block Lake within the valley was dammed and served as a reservoir for the old Husvik whaling station. It was named in 1990 by UK-APC after William C. Block, invertebrate zoologist.][
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References
Valleys of Antarctica
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