The Fildes Peninsula is a 7 km (4.3 mi) long peninsula that forms the south-western end of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica . It was named from association with nearby Fildes Strait by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1960; the strait was likely named for Robert Fildes , a British sealer of the 1800s.
16-580: The peninsula is the most extensively snow-free coastal area in summer on the island, most of which is permanently covered by ice. Its southeastern end is a point called Halfthree Point. It was charted and named by Discovery Investigations personnel on the Discovery II in 1935. It is part of the Fildes Peninsula Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 125), designated as such because of its paleontological values. It
32-402: A 1920 survey of King Edward Cove by personnel on HMS Dartmouth . Hope Point is the site of a monument in commemoration of Sir Ernest Shackleton . The cove sits southwest of Mount Duse and southeast of Mount Hodges . Gull Lake sits close to the cove's southwest shore. Hobart Rock is a low rock lying at the south side of the entrance to the cove. The name appears on a chart based upon
48-496: A report on Rock Specimens by GW Tyrrell ARCSc DSc FGS FRSE) A L Nelson RNR Plate XXXII Plates XXXIII - XXXVIII with a Description of a New Species from South Georgia Plate XXXIX Plates XL - XLIV Charts 1 - 4 Plates I - IV Plates VI - XVII Arthur Earland FRMS Plate I Plates II - III Plate IV Assistant keeper in the Department of zoology, British Museum (Natural History) Plates I - VI Lecturer in zoology at
64-531: A survey of King Edward Cove by personnel on HMS Sappho in 1906. Just 0.25 miles (0.4 km) south of King Edward Cove is Susa Point, a low rocky point marking the seaward end of a small east–west ridge separating two tussock-covered flats. First surveyed by the SAE under Nordenskjold, it was named by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) following their sketch survey in 1951. The name
80-633: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Discovery Investigations The Discovery Investigations were a series of scientific cruises and shore-based investigations into the biology of whales in the Southern Ocean . They were funded by the British Colonial Office and organised by the Discovery Committee in London, which was formed in 1918. They were intended to provide
96-531: Is one of a group in the vicinity of Discovery Point derived from the chemical fixatives used there in biological work by the FIDS. [REDACTED] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey . 54°17′S 36°30′W / 54.283°S 36.500°W / -54.283; -36.500 This South Georgia and
112-437: Is separated at its tip from Nelson Island by Fildes Strait, only 370 m wide at its narrowest. It is bounded on its south-east coast by Maxwell Bay , which is also known as Fildes Bay, and on its north-west by the open waters of the Southern Ocean . Geologically, the peninsula is a tableland made up of old coastal landforms, with numerous rocky outcrops and an average height of 30 m above sea level. Research stations on
128-703: The Late Cretaceous to the Eocene , including footprints of both vertebrate and invertebrate animals, as well as plant fossils with impressions of leaves and fronds, trunks, and pollen grains and spores. Sites comprising the ASPA are Fossil Hill, Holz Stream, Glacier Dome Bellingshausen, Halfthree Point, Suffield Point , Fossil Point, Gradzinski Cove and Skua Cove. 62°12′S 58°58′W / 62.200°S 58.967°W / -62.200; -58.967 This King George Island (South Shetland Islands) location article
144-475: The South Shetland Islands in the brig Cora, 1820–21, and in the brig Robert, 1821–22, and who prepared the first comprehensive sailing directions for the islands (Fildes, 1821c). Eight separate sites on the peninsula have been collectively designated an Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA 125), largely because of their paleontological values. The area contains outcrops with fossils dating from
160-460: The United Kingdom. British Antarctic Survey research station King Edward Point is located on Hope Point, the cove's northernmost headland. Abandoned whaling station Grytviken is located on the cove's western shore. Hope Point is a rocky bluff, 20 metres (70 ft) high, which forms the north side of the entrance to King Edward Cove. SAE personnel named it for H.W.W. Hope , who directed
176-469: The University of Glasgow Plates VII - XLII A G Bennett Plates XLIII - XLIV Plates XLV - XLVII Charts 1 - 7 Plates XLVIII-LVII Assistant-Keeper, Department of Zoology, British Museum (Nat. Hist.) Plates 1 - VII Plates VIII - X Plates XI - XIII Plate XIV Plate XV Plates I - XIII King Edward Cove King Edward Cove ( Spanish : Caleta Capitán Vago ) is a sheltered cove in
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#1732855780425192-477: The marine laboratory, Discovery House , built in 1925 at King Edward Point and occupied until 1931. The scientists lived and worked in the building, travelling half a mile or so across King Edward Cove to the whaling station at Grytviken to work on whales as they were brought ashore by commercial whaling ships. Vessels used were: Results of the investigations were printed in the Discovery Reports. This
208-455: The peninsula include Chile ’s Base Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva and Profesor Julio Escudero Base , China ’s Great Wall Station , Russia ’s Bellingshausen Station and Uruguay ’s Artigas Base . Running E-W between Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, and Nelson Island, was known to the nineteenth-century sealers; charted and named Filde's [sic] Strait or Sound by Capt. Robert Fildes, English sealing captain from Liverpool, who visited
224-525: The scientific background to stock management of the commercial Antarctic whale fishery. Discovery Investigations contributed greatly to knowledge of the whales, the krill they fed on and their habitat's oceanography, while charting the local topography, including Atherton Peak . They continued until 1951, with the final report published in 1980. Collected specimens are in the Discovery Collections . Shore-based work on South Georgia took place in
240-501: The west side of Cumberland East Bay , South Georgia . This cove and its surrounding features, frequented by early sealers at South Georgia, was charted by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition , 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskiöld who named it Grytviken. That name, meaning 'Pot Bay,' was subsequently assumed by the whaling station and settlement built in 1904. The cove got its present name in about 1906 for King Edward VII of
256-680: Was a series of many small reports, published in 38 volumes by the Cambridge University Press , and latterly the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences . Many were printed as individual reports rather than in large volumes. Pages/Plates/Charts Plates I - VI Plates VII - XVIII A C Hardy MA N A Mackintosh ARCS MSc Plates XIX - XXIV with Notes on Other Seals Found at South Georgia Plates XXV - XLIV J F G Wheeler MSc Plates XLV - LVI Plate I Plate II Plates III - IV Plate V Plates VI - VII Plates I - X Plates XI - XXXI (With
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