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Carl A. Larsen. In the early 20th century South Georgia experienced a new rush of economic activity and settlement. Following a 1900 advertisement by the Falklands Government the entire island was leased to a Punta Arenas company, and a subsequent conflict of interests with the Compañía Argentina de Pesca which had started whaling at Grytviken since December 1904 was settled by the British ...
Nils Gabriel Sefström (2 June 1787 – 30 November 1845) was a Swedish chemist.Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium.
Richard William Seale's map of 1744, showing Roche Island and noting its discovery in 1675. The island of South Georgia was first sighted and visited in April 1675 by Anthony de la Roché, a London merchant and (despite his French name) an Englishman, who spent a fortnight in one of the island's bays. [4]
1675 – During a commercial voyage, English merchant Anthony de la Roché accidentally discovers South Georgia Island, the first ever discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence. [citation needed] 1682 – Robert de La Salle descends the "Rivière de Colbert" (Mississippi) to its mouth. [73]
The visit to South Georgia by the English merchant Anthony de la Roché in 1675 was the first ever discovery of land south of the Antarctic Convergence. [17] [18] Soon after the voyage cartographers started to depict 'Roché Island', honouring the discoverer. James Cook was aware of La Roché's discovery when surveying and mapping the island in ...
Metallic vanadium is rare in nature (known as native vanadium), [52] [53] having been found among fumaroles of the Colima Volcano, but vanadium compounds occur naturally in about 65 different minerals. Vanadium began to be used in the manufacture of special steels in 1896. At that time, very few deposits of vanadium ores were known.
The Age of Discovery (c. 1418 – c. 1620), [1] also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapped with the Age of Sail. It was a period from approximately the late 15th century to the 17th century, during which seafarers from a number of European countries explored, colonized, and conquered regions ...
Kemp Caldera [a] and Kemp Seamount form a submarine volcano south of the South Sandwich Islands, in a region where several seamounts are located. The seamount rises to a depth of 80 metres (260 ft) below sea level; the caldera has a diameter of 8.3 by 6.5 kilometres (5.2 mi × 4.0 mi) and reaches a depth of 1,600 metres (5,200 ft).