Brøde
| Brøde | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 55 ′ S , 36 ° 7 ′ W | |
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Brøde ( Norwegian for loaf of bread ) is a small, round island overgrown with tussock on the southern tip of South Georgia . It is located 1.5 km southwest of Green Island .
The British navigator and explorer James Cook mapped it in 1775 on his second South Sea voyage (1772–1775). The German explorer Ludwig Kohl-Larsen carried out a rough survey of the island on his expedition, which lasted from 1928 to 1930, and named it the main island . The South Georgia Survey reported in the course of a survey between 1951 and 1952 that the descriptive Norwegian name has long been established among whale and seal hunters. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names confirmed this designation in 1956.
Web links
- Brode Iceland in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brøde Island on geographic.org (English)