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Duff Point
Duff Point is a point on Archar Peninsula forming the western extremity of Greenwich Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The name ''Duffs Straits'' was applied to McFarlane Strait by James Weddell in 1820–23, after Captain Norwich Duff under whom Weddell served in HMS ''Espoir'' in 1814. The name Duff Point was given by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1961 in order to preserve Weddell's name in the area; this point forms the northeast entrance to McFarlane Strait. Location The point is located at which is 5.54 km east of Williams Point, Livingston Island, 15.63 km west of Spark Point and 8.54 km north of Inott Point Inott Point () is a point north-northeast of Edinburgh Hill forming the eastern extremity of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 4.3 km southwest of Bagryana Point on Greenwich Island across ... (British mapping in 1821 and 1968, Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009). Maps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Espoir (1804)
HMS ''Espoir'' was a ''Cruizer''-class brig-sloop of the Royal Navy, launched in 1804. She served during the Napoleonic Wars, primarily in the Mediterranean, and then briefly on the North American station. She was broken up in April 1821. Career Commander Joseph Edmonds commissioned ''Espoir'' in October 1804. On 22 June 1805 she recaptured ''Hannah''. ''Hannah'', of Greenock, had been returning to Britain when the privateer ''Alcide'', of Bordeaux, had captured her on 7 June. ''Hannah'' arrived at Plymouth on 9 July. In the autumn of 1805 ''Espoir'' was part of Commodore Home Popham and General Sir David Baird's expedition to capture the Cape of Good Hope. The fleet sailed to Madeira and San Salvador. On 5 October Edmonds transferred to command and Home Popham transferred Lieutenant William King, first lieutenant on , to (acting) command of ''Espoir''.Marshall (1827), Supplement, Part 1, pp.253-254. The fleet reached Robben Island on 4 January 1806. On 5 January Home Poph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inott Point
Inott Point () is a point north-northeast of Edinburgh Hill forming the eastern extremity of Varna Peninsula on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Situated 4.3 km southwest of Bagryana Point on Greenwich Island across McFarlane Strait. In association with the names of nineteenth century sealers in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Captain Robert Inott, Master of the American sealing ship ''Samuel'' (after which Samuel Peak Samuel Peak is the 540 m peak in central Vidin Heights, Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Surmounting Panega Glacier to the east and Kaliakra Glacier to the south. The peak is named after the American sealing shi ... was named) from Nantucket, who visited the South Shetland Islands in 1820–21. Maps * L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spark Point
Spark Point, also ''Canto Point'', is a rocky point forming the northwest side of the entrance to both Discovery Bay and Galápagos Cove, and the east side of the entrance to Jambelí Cove in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point ends up in a conspicuous monolithic formation and has an adjacent ice-free area of .L.L. IvanovAntarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers. The feature is named after the American sealing schooner ''Spark'' which operated out of the nearby Clothier Harbour in 1820–21. Location The point is located at which is northwest of Ash Point, southeast of Dee Island, south-southeast of Barrientos Island, south of Fort William Point, Robert Island and southwest of Negra Point, Robert Island. British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Argentine in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livingston Island
Livingston Island (Russian name ''Smolensk'', ) is an Antarctic island in the Southern Ocean, part of the South Shetlands Archipelago, a group of Antarctic islands north of the Antarctic Peninsula. It was the first land discovered south of 60° south latitude in 1819, a historic event that marked the end of a centuries-long pursuit of the mythical ''Terra Australis Incognita'' and the beginning of the exploration and utilization of real Antarctica. The name Livingston, although of unknown derivation, has been well established in international usage since the early 1820s. Geography Livingston Island is situated in West Antarctica northwest of Cape Roquemaurel on the Antarctic mainland, south-southeast of Cape Horn in South America, southeast of the Diego Ramírez Islands (the southernmost land of South America), due south of the Falkland Islands, southwest of South Georgia Islands, and from the South Pole.L. IvanovGeneral Geography and History of Livingston Island.In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Williams Point
Williams Point is the point forming both the north extremity of Varna Peninsula and the northeast tip of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Separated from Zed Islands to the north by Iglika Passage. The discovery of the South Shetland Islands was first reported in 1819 by William Smith, Master of the brig ''Williams'' who had sighted the point on 19 February that year. An 1820 publication suggests that Smith gave the name ‘Williams’ to a point of land in this vicinity. In recent years the place name Williams Point has been established in international usage for the point described. Location The point is located at which is 9.47 km north of Miziya Peak in Vidin Heights, 8.8 km east of Desolation Island, 1.5 km south of Zed Islands and 5.5 km west of Duff Point on Greenwich Island. British mapping in 1822, Chilean in 1971, Argentine in 1980, Spanish in 1991, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009. Maps Chart of South Shetland in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (SGSSI). Such names are formally approved by the Commissioners of the BAT and SGSSI respectively, and published in the BAT Gazetteer and the SGSSI Gazetteer maintained by the Committee. The BAT names are also published in the international Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica maintained by SCAR. The Committee may also consider proposals for new place names for geographical features in areas of Antarctica outside BAT and SGSSI, which are referred to other Antarctic place-naming authorities, or decided by the Committee itself if situated in the unclaimed sector of Antarctica. Names attributed by the committee * Anvil Crag, named for descriptive features *Anckorn Nunataks, named after J. F. Anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich Duff
Admiral Norwich Duff FRSE (15 August 1792 – 21 April 1862) was a Royal Navy officer. Life The son of Captain George Duff RN, and Sophia Dirom, he was born at 9 South Castle Street, Edinburgh. He entered the Royal Navy in July 1805, just before his 13th birthday, serving aboard his father's ship as a midshipman. In October 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar his father was killed. Duff was promoted to lieutenant in September 1811 and was appointed flag-lieutenant to the commander-in-chief in February 1814. He served on . He was promoted to commander on 15 June 1814 and appointed to command of the 18-gun brig-sloop , part of the naval force in the Chesapeake during the War of 1812, and later took part in the attack on New Orleans. In October 1816 Duff was appointed to command of the 10-gun brig-sloop and sent to the Caribbean, where he assumed command of the 18-gun in September 1817. He returned to England in August 1818. He undertook an extensive continental European tour in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Weddell
James Weddell (24 August 1787 – 9 September 1834) was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea. Early life He was born in Ostend on the Belgian coast, the son of a Scottish sea captain (captains were permitted their wives at sea). He was apprenticed as a seaman (this normally started at age eight) and so received little education, but clearly could at least read and write. He originally worked on merchant ships on the north-east Scottish coast. He entered the merchant service very early in his life and was apparently bound to the master of a Newcastle collier (a coal transport vessel) for some years. About 1805 he shipped on board a merchantman trading to the West Indies, making several voyages there. In 1808 he struck his captain, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFarlane Strait
McFarlane Strait is a strait lying between Greenwich Island and Livingston Island, in the South Shetland Islands off Antarctica. It is long and wide. The name appears on an 1822 chart by Captain George Powell, a British sealer, and is now well established in international usage. Location The strait is centred at (), and entered between Williams Point and Duff Point to the northwest and between Renier Point and Ephraim Bluff to the southeast SCAR (British mapping in 1822 and 1968, Chilean mapping in 1971, Argentine mapping in 1980, Spanish mapping in 1991, and Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009). Maps |
