Totorore Point

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Totorore Point
Geographical location
Totorore Point (South Georgia)
Totorore Point
Coordinates 54 ° 17 ′  S , 37 ° 22 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′  S , 37 ° 22 ′  W
location South Georgia
Waters South Atlantic

The Totorore Point is a headland on the south coast of South Georgia . It is the southern branch of the Núñez Peninsula .

The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2002. It is named after the sloop Totorore , with which the British ornithologist Gerald Stanley Clark (1927-1999) undertook an ornithological survey in southern Chile and South Georgia from 1983 to 1986 and in 1999 off Antipodes Island as a result of a The storm went missing.

Web links

  • Totorore Point . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)