Tawny Gap
Tawny Gap is a low pass extending across South Georgia from the head of Ice Fjord to a cove just south of Wales Head. The name was given by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee following survey by the SGS in the period 1951-57 and is descriptive of the colorful vegetation in this small gap.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wales Head and Comer Crag.
Wales Head
Peak
Wales Head is a headland 2.5 nautical miles east of Craigie Point on the north coast of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for William Wales, English astronomer sent by the Board of Longitude to make astronomical observations during Cook's second voyage, 1772–75, sailing in the Resolution.
Comer Crag
Peak
Comer Crag is a crag, 635 metres high, standing 1 nautical mile north of the head of Ice Fjord in the western part of South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Captain George Comer of East Haddam, Connecticut, who made his first sealing visit to South Georgia in the topsail schooner Era in 1885. Comer Crag is situated 2½ km southwest of Tawny Gap.
Tawny Gap
- Type: Pass with an elevation of 50 metres
- Categories: gap and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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In Other Languages
From German to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Tawny Gap” goes by many names.
- German: “Tawny Gap”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tawny Gap”
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