Little Tioga
| Little Tioga | ||
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| location | Signy Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 43 ′ 8 ″ S , 45 ° 38 ′ 9 ″ W | |
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Little Tioga is a rocky outcrop on Signy Island in the Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It rises from the icy southeast slope of Tioga Hill .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out surveys between 1947 and 1950. Aerial photographs were taken in 1968 by the Royal Navy . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2004 based on the name of Tioga Hill. Its namesake is the Norwegian factory ship Tioga , built in 1890 , which operated for whaling in the waters around the southern Orkney Islands between 1911 and 1912 and which sank in a storm near Port Jebsen on February 4, 1913 .
Web links
- Little Tioga in the Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (English)