King Edward Point
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 17 ′ S , 36 ° 30 ′ W | ||
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| Country | South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GS | ||
| Residents | 44 (in summer) | ||
| founding | 1925 | ||
| Post Code | SIQQ 1ZZ | ||
 King Edward Point without snow and ice
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King Edward Point is now the administrative seat of the British overseas territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and is located on a headland on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia , on which there is a research station of the same name. It was named after the British King Edward VII at the beginning of the 20th century .
location
King Edward Point is located at 54 ° 17 ′ S , 36 ° 30 ′ W on the north coast of South Georgia 900 meters east (670 meters as the crow flies ) of the former whaling settlement Grytviken in King Edward Cove , a tributary of the Cumberland East Bay . The buildings of the research station, erected on rocky ground, are about three meters above sea level.
Research station
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Due to the rapidly increasing whaling activity, the British government built the Discovery House in 1925 to research how overfishing could be counteracted. In addition, studies were carried out on the local bird and seal populations. On January 1, 1950, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) took over the research station for an initial two years. From November 13, 1969, the FIDS, now renamed the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), resumed work. On April 3, 1982, it was closed by the Argentine troops occupying the island during the Falklands War and was orphaned for almost 20 years. Since March 22, 2001, up to 44 researchers at BAS have been working in King Edward Point in the summer and an average of 12 in the winter.
Two one-story buildings, the James Cook Laboratory and Everson House , house modern laboratories for fisheries research.
Shackleton's Memorial Cross
On Hope Point , an elevated headland east of the buildings, is Shackleton's Memorial Cross , which was erected in honor of the polar explorer Ernest Henry Shackleton , who died and was buried on a research trip in Grytviken.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ King Edward Point at BAS. In: www.bas.ac.uk. British Antarctic Survey, accessed March 15, 2020 .