Leon Head
| Leon Head | ||
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 34 ′ S , 36 ° 30 ′ W | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | Undine South Harbor | |
| Waters 2 | Brøgger Glacier | |
The Leon Head is a striking, rocky and 880 m high point of land on the south coast of South Georgia . It lies on the southern flank of the mouth of the Brøgger Glacier and the southeast side of the entrance to Undine South Harbor .
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen roughly mapped the headland in 1819 during the course of the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821). The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1955 following a survey by the South Georgia Survey between 1951 and 1952 after the Spanish ship Leon , with which the French navigator Nicolas Pierre Duclos-Guyot (1722-1794) discovered South Georgia in 1756 .
Web links
- Leon Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Leon Head on geographic.org (English)