Lancing Bay

Lancing Bay is a bay on the west side of Coronation Island, amongst the South Orkney Islands in the British Antarctic Territory. It is to the west of Pomona Plateau.

The bay is named for the SS Lancing, a whaling factory ship operated by Norwegian whaling firm Hvalfanger A/S Globus, which worked in waters off South Orkney Islands 1925-27. The Lancing is notable as the first whaling factory ship to be fitted with a stern slipway and pioneered the practice of pelagic whaling without the need for shore stations.

Location

• Location map: 60°33’45"S, 45°59’9"W

References

• Gazetteer and Map of The British Antarctic Territory: Lancing Bay