Pickersgill Islands

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Pickersgill Islands
Waters South Atlantic
archipelago South Georgia
Geographical location 54 ° 38 ′  S , 36 ° 45 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′  S , 36 ° 45 ′  W
Pickersgill Islands (South Georgia)
Pickersgill Islands
Number of islands 3
Main island Tanner Island
Residents uninhabited

The Pickersgill Islands are a group of three islands in the South Georgia archipelago in the South Atlantic . They are located about 15 km off the south coast of South Georgia and about 25 km southeast of Annenkov Island .

They were discovered in 1819 during the first Russian Antarctic expedition (1819–1821) under Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen . This mistakenly assumed that the island was discovered by James Cook in 1775 and rediscovered after Richard Pickersgill (1749–1779), a lieutenant in the Resolution , and mapped the largest island in the group under this name. The island named by James Cook was, however, the island that Bellinghausen had named Annenkov Island in 1819 . In the period that followed, the names that are valid today for the archipelago discovered by Bellingshausen and for the island discovered by Cook have prevailed.

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