Sörling Valley is an ice-free valley between Cumberland East Bay and Hound Bay on the north side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Erik Sörling of the Riksmuseum, Stockholm, who made zoological collections in South Georgia in 1904–05. Nearby features include Ellerbeck Peak, a mountain on the south side of the valley.[1]
On 21 April 1982, during the Falklands War, the British SBS was landed at Hound Bay beach from helicopters based on HMS Endurance, and attempted to cross to the Argentine positions through Sorling Valley[2] and Cumberland East Bay.
The Barff Peninsula projects northwest from Sörling Valley.[3]
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- ^ "Ellerbeck Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 22 August 2018.
- ^ Bicheno, Hugh (2006) Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War. London. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-7538-2186-2
- ^ "Barff Peninsula". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
54°22′S 36°18′W / 54.367°S 36.300°W
This article incorporates public domain material from "Sörling Valley". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
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