Fortuna Rocks
| Fortuna Rocks | ||
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| Waters | Fortuna Bay | |
| archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 6 ′ S , 36 ° 47 ′ W | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
The Fortuna Rocks are a small group of cliff rocks off the north coast of South Georgia . They are on the east side of the entrance to Fortuna Bay .
The cliffs are shown for the first time on a map that was created in the course of the Second German Antarctic Expedition (1911–1912) under the direction of Wilhelm Filchner . The name, which was made before 1920, is derived from that of the bay of the same name. Its namesake is the whaling ship Fortuna , with which the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur and Antarctic researcher Carl Anton Larsen operated in the waters around South Georgia between 1904 and 1905.
Web links
- Fortuna Rocks in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Fortuna Rocks on geographic.org (English)