Tickell Head
| Tickell Head | ||
 Map of Coronation Island (center) with Tickell Head |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 32 ′ S , 45 ° 48 ′ W | |
| location | Coronation Island ( South Orkney Islands ) | |
| Waters | Sherman Bay | |
| Waters 2 | Bridger Bay | |
The Tickell Head a vorgebirgsähnliche headland on the north coast of Coronation Iceland in Archipelago of the South Orkney Islands . It lies across the entrance to Bridger Bay in the west from that to Sherman Bay in the east.
The British whaling captain George Powell (1794-1824) and his American counterpart Nathaniel Palmer were the first to sight the headland in December 1821. The Falkland Island Dependencies Survey (FIDS) surveyed the bay between 1956 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it on July 7, 1959 after William Lancelot Noyes Tickell (* 1930), who worked as a meteorologist for FIDS in 1955 on Signy Island , headed this meteorological station in 1956 and is the first to climb Mount Nivea .
Web links
- Tickell Head in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tickell Head on geographic.org (English)