The point appears to be first named on a chart based upon DI surveys undertaken in the period 1926-30. 10 likes.
The Pickersgill Islands ( 54°37′S36°45′W / 54.617°S 36.750°W / -54.617; -36.750 ) are a small archipelago to the west of the main island of South Georgia.
An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, and a small island off the coast may be called a holm.
Cook Island is the central and largest island of Southern Thule, part of the South Sandwich Islands in the far south Atlantic Ocean. The point itself appears on charts dating back to about 1900. The reef was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey (SGS), 1951–52, and named for Captain Ole Hauge, of the sealer Albatros, whose knowledge of the coasts of South Georgia was of great assistance to the SGS. Leskov Island is a small uninhabited island in the Traversay Islands group of the South Sandwich Islands. The South Sandwich Islands lie about 700 kilometres (430 mi) southeast of South Georgia. Mirny was a 20-gun sloop-of-war of the Imperial Russian Navy, the second ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition in 1819—1821, during which Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev circumnavigated the globe, discovered the continent of Antarctica and twice circumnavigated it, and discovered a number of islands and archipelagos in the Southern Ocean and the Pacific. It was discovered by a British expedition under James Cook in 1775, and named for Lieutenant Robert Palliser Cooper, an officer aboard HMS Resolution. At night, once clear of the Patten Passage reef, steer NNW until the Motuara Island light is visible. Deze pagina is voor het laatst bewerkt op 25 nov 2018 om 16:26. A grouping of geographically or geologically related islands is called an archipelago, such as the Philippines. The Falkland Islands are about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi) north-west from its nearest point. The Pickersgill Islands, meanwhile were discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who charted the largest feature of the group as Pickersgill Island, erroneously thinking it to be the island sighted in 1775 by Captain James Cook and named for Lieutenant Richard Pickersgill of the expedition ship Resolution. It was discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, who named it for the third lieutenant on the expedition ship Vostok. The organization has four major science disciplines, concerning biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee following a survey by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–52, for Heinrich W. Klutschak, an Austrian artist who accompanied the American sealing schooner Flying Fish to South Georgia in 1877–78 and published a narrative of his activities with a sketch map in 1881. The Pickersgill Islands, meanwhile were discovered in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, who charted the largest feature of the group as Pickersgill Island, erroneously thinking it to be the island sighted in 1775 by Captain James Cook and named for Lieutenant Richard Pickersgill of the expedition ship Resolution. Annenkov Island was discovered in January 1775 by a British expedition under Cook, who named it "Pickersgills Island" for Lieutenant Richard Pickersgill of the expedition ship HMS Resolution (1771). There are a few beaches on the island which offer limited shelter only. The Pickersgill Islands (54°37′S 36°45′W / 54.617°S 36.750°W / -54.617; -36.750) are a small archipelago to the west of the main island of South Georgia.
The island was named for Cook by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen, which explored the South Sandwich Islands in 1819–1820. Marine Farms - Marine Farming Association. The USGS is a fact-finding research organization with no regulatory responsibility. Due to these setbacks, human activity in the islands has largely consisted of sealing, whaling, and scientific surveys and research, interrupted by World War II and the Falklands War.
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI) is a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.
It is less than 1 nautical mile (2 km) long, and lies 30 nautical miles (56 km) west of Visokoi Island. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook and so named by him because numerous islands lie in the bay. Southern Thule was discovered by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775. The area is exposed to most winds but the southern coast has some good picnic spots which are well sheltered from wind and sea in NW to N to E. A dangerous reef extends 300 meters from the north-western end of the island. Annenkov Island was discovered by Captain James Cook in 1775, and resighted by Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen in 1819. When European explorers found the islands, they were uninhabited, and their hostile climate, mountainous terrain, and remoteness made subsequent settlement difficult. The Allardyce Range is a mountain range rising south of Cumberland Bay and dominating the central part of South Georgia, a UK overseas territory. HMS Resolution was a sloop of the Royal Navy, a converted merchant collier purchased by the Navy and adapted, in which Captain James Cook made his second and third voyages of exploration in the Pacific. Klutschak Point is a rocky point 2 nautical miles (4 km) southeast of Cape Demidov on the south coast of South Georgia. The history of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is relatively recent. The Traversay Islands are a group of three islands—Zavodovski, Leskov and Visokoi—at the northern end of the South Sandwich Islands. They are 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Bird Island. The name "Pickersgill" got transferred from Annenkov Island, to this archipelago 15 miles (24 km) to its southeast. Novosilski Bay is a bay 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, indenting the south coast of South Georgia immediately south of Mount Fraser. The Pickersgill Islands are to its southeast. It was discovered and plotted from air photos by the Third German Antarctic Expedition, 1938–39 and later mapped from air photos and surveys collected by the Sixth Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1956–60. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee, following a survey by the South Georgia Survey, 1951–52, for the Spanish vessel Leon, which sighted South Georgia in 1756.