Ducloz Head
| Ducloz Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 31 ′ S , 36 ° 39 ′ W | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Waters 2 | Undine South Harbor | |
The Ducloz Head is a headland on the south coast of South Georgia . It limits the entrance to Undine South Harbor to the northwest .
It was first mapped in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 after an investigation by the South Georgia Survey between 1951 and 1952. It is named after Ducloz Guyot, a passenger on the Spanish ship Leon , which reached South Georgia in 1756.
During the 1950s, Verner Duncan Carse (1913-2004) explored various areas in the interior of South Georgia for the South Georgia Survey. He negotiated a one shilling a year rent for four acres of land at Ducloz Head and prepaid for ten years. On February 23, 1961, Carse was dropped off here by HMS Owen with 12 tons of food and a prefabricated hut. A ship came to check on him in April, but on May 20 a great wave washed him, his hut and his food into the sea. He managed to survive the polar winter for an additional 116 days before being rescued by a seal hunter.
Web links
- Ducloz Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Ducloz Head on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography of Verner Duncan Carse , on the Freeze Frame portal of the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) at the University of Cambridge , accessed on June 12, 2016.