Klutschak Point
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 10 ′ S , 37 ° 41 ′ W | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | South Atlantic | |
The Klutschak Point is a rocky headland in the northwest of South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It is located 600 m southeast of the Anvil Stacks and 800 m south of Elephant Cove on the south coast of the island.
The British explorer James Cook mapped the coast near the headland in 1775 during his Second South Seas Voyage (1772-1775). In 1819 Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen also carried out a mapping on the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821). The headland itself appears for the first time on maps from around 1900. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named them in 1955 after a survey by the South Georgia Survey between 1951 and 1952 after the Austrian draftsman and geodesist Heinrich Klutschak , who visited South Georgia in 1877/78 on board the US sealer Flying Fish and including his travel experiences published a map sketched by him in 1881.
Web links
- Klutschak Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Klutschak Point on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Kluschak: A visit to South Georgia. In: Deutsche Rundschau for Geography and Statistics 3, 1881, pp. 522-531.