Photograph: Church in landscape, Grytviken, South Georgia
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Aug 1984
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Grytviken is the site of the disused whaling station, at the head of King Edward Cove. King Edward Point is a permanent British Antarctic Survey research station on South Georgia island and is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Norwegian Anglican Church, known as the Whalers Church, and as the Norwegian Lutheran Church, it was built in 1913.
Part of a large collection of written and audiovisual, photographic resources and equipment which belonged to Gerry Clark; most of which document his voyages in the Southern Ocean.
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