The Turret
| The Turret | ||
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 40 ′ S , 45 ° 9 ′ W | |
| location | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters | Lewthwaite Strait | |
| Waters 2 | Gibbon Bay | |
The Turret ( English for the wall tower ) is a rocky and up to 460 m high headland on the east coast of Coronation Island in the archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It is on the south side of the entrance to Gibbon Bay .
The British whaling captain George Powell (1794-1824) and his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer were probably the first to sight the headland in December 1821. Participants in the British Discovery Investigations mapped out a map in 1933 and gave the headland its descriptive name.
Web links
- The Turret in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- The Turret on geographic.org (English)