Brutus Island
| Brutus Island | ||
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| Waters | Prince Olav Harbor | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 4 ′ S , 37 ° 9 ′ W | |
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Brutus Island is a small island in the middle of Prince Olav Harbor on the north coast of South Georgia .
Presumably they called participants in the British Quest Expedition (1921-1922) descriptive than Saddleback Iceland ( English for Saddle Island ). Since this name was already taken for Saddle Island in the archipelago of the Southern Orkney Islands , it did not prevail. The current name for the island goes back to Harold Salvesen (1897–1970), director of the whaling company Salvesen & Co. founded by Christian Salvesen in Leith , Scotland . It was named after the coal tug Brutus , which was moored for many years not far from the whaling station in Prince Olav Harbor .
Web links
- Brutus Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Brutus Island on geographic.org (English)