Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Balæna Valley

(Joinville Island)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 63° 19' 43" S 56° 23' 19" W
head of Kinnes Cove, W Joinville Island, following survey by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from Hope Bay in 1953-54 was named after Balæna (ex Mjolnar), built at Drammen, Norway, in 1872 and one of the barques of the Dundee Whaling Expedition (Active Sound, Diana Reef, Cape Kinnes, q.v.).