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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 ...
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]
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.
Trendall Crag is a mountain crag overlooking the north side of the fjord at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the South Georgia Survey (SGS) from 1951 to 1957 by a research group led by English explorer Duncan Carse, it was named after Alec Trendall, an English geologist who took part in the SGS expedition. The crag has an ...
The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957. [1] Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of the 20th century, its interior was generally unknown, and maps were largely based on the original ...
The Bay of Isles is a bay 9 miles (14 km) wide and receding 3 miles (5 km), lying between Cape Buller and Cape Wilson along the north coast of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands (at least twelve) lie in the bay. [1]
King Edward Point (also known as KEP) is a permanent British Antarctic Survey research station on South Georgia island and is the capital of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. [1] It is situated in Cumberland East Bay on the northeastern coast of the island. [2]