Peggotty Bluff
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| location | South Georgia in the South Atlantic | |
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 9 ′ S , 37 ° 17 ′ W | |
The Peggotty Bluff is a cliff on the south coast of South Georgia . It rises on the north shore of King Haakon Bay near the head end.
Not far from this cliff built in May 1916, the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton and five companions after crossing from Elephant Iceland during the Endurance Expedition (1914-1917), the so-called Peggotty Camp , whose name is published by the family Peggotty from the 1849/1850 Derives novel David Copperfield by the British writer Charles Dickens . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee transferred this designation to the cliff described here in 1958.
Web links
- Peggotty Bluff in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Peggotty Bluff on geographic.org (English)