Waterpipe Beach
Waterpipe Beach (60°43′S 45°37′W / 60.717°S 45.617°WCoordinates: 60°43′S 45°37′W / 60.717°S 45.617°W) is a flat shingle beach on the west side of Borge Bay, Signy Island, in the South Orkney Islands. Surveyed in 1933 by DI personnel. Resurveyed and named in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). An old pipe line from a pumping station by Pumphouse Lake, the southernmost lake in Three Lakes Valley, leads down to this beach and was used by the Tonsberg Hvalfangeri for watering whaling vessels during the period 1920-30.
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