Tijuca Point
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 21 ′ S , 36 ° 13 ′ W | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Waters | South Atlantic | |
| Waters 2 | Hound Bay | |
The Tijuca Point is a striking and rocky headland on the north coast of South Georgia . It marks the entrance to Hound Bay to the northwest .
Participants in the British Discovery Investigations named it Penguin Point in 1930 . The South Georgia Survey recommended a renaming in the course of surveys between 1951 and 1952, as numerous other objects bear this name. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the headland in 1955 after the Tijuca , a three-masted barque built in Nantes in 1866 , which was used as a transport ship between Buenos Aires and the whaling station in Grytviken in the service of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca of the Norwegian entrepreneur Carl Anton Larsen from 1908 was and sank in 1946.
Web links
- Tijuca Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Tijuca Point on geographic.org (English)