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Skua Island is an island immediately northeast of Prion Island in the entrance to the Bay of Isles, South Georgia. Charted in 1912-13 by Robert Cushman Murphy, American naturalist aboard the brig Daisy. Surveyed in 1929-30 by DI personnel and named in association with Albatross Island, Prion Island and other natural history names given in the Bay of Isles by Murphy in 1912–13.
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Jewell Glacier is a short glacier flowing south-southwest from Mount Grant into Jossac Bight on the south coast of South Georgia. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1982 after John A. Jewell, a British Antarctic Survey field assistant in this area in 1976–77, at Rothera Research Station in 1977–78, and Base Commander at Rothera, 1978–80.
Mount Corneliussen is a mountain, 1,540 metres (5,050 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) north of Mount Globus at the west end of the Allardyce Range of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Norwegian engineers Carl and Erling Corneliussen, who between 1923 and 1938 were responsible for improvements in whaling equipment, especially devices in connection with explosive harpoons.
Douglas Crag is a crag, 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) high, standing 1 nautical mile (2 km) southeast of Mount Macklin at the south end of the Salvesen Range of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for George V. Douglas, a geologist with the British expedition under Ernest Shackleton, 1921–22.
Low Reef is a reef extending for 1 nautical mile (2 km) from the east end of Annenkov Island, which lies off South Georgia in the South Atlantic. The name "Low Rock" appeared on a 1931 Admiralty chart for the northeastern rock of this reef. The South Georgia Survey, 1956–57, reported that it was the reef which required a name to distinguish it from nearby Hauge Reef.
Seaward Rock is a rock close to the northeast of Mollyhawk Island, which is the northern and most seaward rock in a group of islands occupying the central part of the Bay of Isles, South Georgia.
Mount Regulator is a mountain, 655 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of Right Whale Bay on the north side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the Regulator. The Regulator was an American sealing ship that was wrecked during the 1799–1800 season. The crew was rescued by an unknown British sealing ship. Captain Edmund Fanning of New York returned during the next season and found deserted shelters at Right Whale Bay, built by the crew of the Regulator before their rescue.
Pyramid Peak is a peak, 475 metres (1,558 ft) high, surmounting Cape Buller at the west side of the entrance to the Bay of Isles, South Georgia Island. It was mapped in 1902 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition and named descriptively "Die Pyramide."
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- ↑ "Globus, Mount". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 26 April 2012.
This article incorporates public domain material from "Globus, Mount". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey.
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