Ocean Harbour
Ocean Harbour (
The names New Fortune Bay and Neufortuna Bay, probably for the whaling catcher Fortuna (owned by the Norwegian-Argentine whaling company Pesca), were used for this site in 1922 by Filchner, following the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12. In 1951–52 the island was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey who reported the site was known to whalers and sealers as Ocean Harbour, a name derived from the Ocean Whaling Co. which at one time had a station there. The name Ocean Harbour is approved for this feature on the basis of local usage, and also to avoid confusion of the name New Fortuna Bay with Fortuna Bay, only 22 miles (35 km) to the northwest.
History
Old sealing
Ocean Harbour has a small cemetery with eight graves including the oldest known grave on the island – that of Frank Cabrial (1820) of the sealer Francis Allen. The marker has gone though some of the others are still marked.
References
This article incorporates public domain material from "Ocean Harbour". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
54°20′S 36°16′W / 54.333°S 36.267°W