Villa Oxford
Worsleyhamna
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Worsleyhamna – also known as Villa Oxford – is located on the northern shore in Liefdefjorden, in the vicinity of the islands of Andøyane. It was, built as a satellite station by Hilmar Nøis in 1924 Nøis furnished his cabin inside a tranaport crate for a seaplane, left by George Binney – leader of a research and mapping expedition that took aerial photographs of Svalbard in 1924. This expedition was the first of its kind in the archipelago, and Worsleyhamna was the base for the expedition.
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