Captain William Smith and the Discovery of New South Shetland

Jones, A. G. E.

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“…He took formal possession of the region for King George III and named the island after him. This followed Smith's discovery of the South Shetland Islands in the previous February (Jones 1975a). During a subsequent voyage Smith was accompanied by Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy, who repeated the ceremony of taking possession on 22 January 1820 at King George Bay, prepared a chart of the region and buried a jar of coins of the realm on the island (Christie 1951).…”

Section: Discovery and Early Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

Activities on the King George Island group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Headland¹,

Keage

1985

Polar Record

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King George Island and Nelson Island, close together in the central South Shetland Islands, were discovered early in the 19th century and often visited by whalers and sealers. Whalers also used their harbours early in the present century. The first permanent station was established in 1947 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey. Currently they are the site of scientific stations and depots operated by eight Antarctic Treaty nations (Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Chile, Peoples' Republic of China, Poland, USSR and Uruguay), all of which make use of their accessible harbours and relatively long summer season.

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Section: Discovery and Early Historymentioning

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Activities on the King George Island group, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

Headland¹,

Keage

1985

Polar Record

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“…62 o 30′S and long. 60 o W which he named "New South Shetland" (Anonymous, 1820;Jones, 1975). In a report on this discovery in the Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, etc.…”

Section: J Eights Description Of a New Crustaceous Animal Found On The Shores Of Thementioning

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“…This information is undoubtedly misleading and correctly must refer to areas in more northerly latitudes. A few months later William Smith revisited the South Shetland Islands during his third voyage to this region and on 16 October 1819 landed on King George Island and took possession of it for King George III (Jones, 1975).…”

Section: J Eights Description Of a New Crustaceous Animal Found On The Shores Of Thementioning

confidence: 99%