A Norwegian expedition under Eyvind Tofte circumnavigated Peter I Island in the Odd I in 1927.
The cove was named for Sandefjord, Norway, center of the Norwegian whaling industry.
[2] Framnes Head is a small rock point forming one of the headlands of the cove.
[1] When members of the US Navy Second Antarctic Development Project landed there in 1948, they discovered a small colony of Adelie penguins.
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