Storer Reef
| Storer Reef | ||
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| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| archipelago | South Georgia | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 22 ′ S , 37 ° 2 ′ W | |
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The Storer Reef is an isolated rocky reef 2.5 km south of the south coast of South Georgia . It is located 3 km southeast of Aspasia Point .
The South Georgia Survey took surveys between 1951 and 1952. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it 1955 Captain Nathaniel Storer (1762-1811) from New Haven , who had built a small schooner on the Patagonian coast in 1801 to sail to South Georgia and there in two hunting seasons a total of around 45,000 seal cases had captured.
Web links
- Storer Reef in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Storer Reef on geographic.org (English)