Jason Island
| Jason Island | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 11 ′ S , 36 ° 30 ′ W | |
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Jason Island is an island off the north coast of South Georgia . It is located immediately east of Castor Point and 1.5 km north of Larsen Point before the entrance to Cumberland Bay .
The island is named after the ship Jason , with which the Norwegian whaling entrepreneur Carl Anton Larsen explored Cumberland Bay between 1893 and 1894 during his Antarctic voyage (1892-1894).
Web links
- Jason Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Jason Island on geographic.org (English)