Susa Point
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 18 ′ S , 36 ° 30 ′ W | |
| location | Thatcher Peninsula , South Georgia | |
| Waters | Cumberland East Bay | |
The Susa Point is a low and rocky headland on the north coast of South Georgia . On the east side of the Thatcher Peninsula , it is 400 m south of the entrance to King Edward Cove and marks the seaward end of a small, east-west oriented mountain ridge that separates two plains overgrown with tussock grass.
Participants in the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901–1903) led by Otto Nordenskjöld carried out a rough survey. The naming took place in 1951 in the course of measurements by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey . It is named after the so-called SUSA mixture according to Heidenain, consisting of mercury (II) chloride , sodium chloride , acetic acid , trichloroacetic acid , formalin and water , which is used for fixation in histology .
Web links
- Susa Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Susa Point on geographic.org (English)