Slossarczyk Crag
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Slossarczyk Crag is a mountain
crag, 805 m, between Doubtful Bay
and Esbensen Bay
at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Third Officer Walter Slossarczyk, communications officer on the Deutschland during the German Antarctic Expedition under Filchner until his death in South Georgia on November 26, 1911. Filchner had named the present Doubtful Bay for Slossarczyk, but the earlier naming did not survive.
Mountain
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crag, 805 m, between Doubtful Bay
Doubtful Bay
Doubtful Bay is a small, deeply indented bay, which lies 1 mile east-northeast of Smaaland Cove and immediately west of Rumbolds Point on the far south west coast of South Georgia...
and Esbensen Bay
Esbensen Bay
Esbensen Bay is a small bay one nautical mile southwest of Nattriss Head, along the southeast end of South Georgia. Charted by the German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Filchner, it is named for Captain Wictor Esbensen, manager of the Compañía Argentina de Pesca whaling station at Grytviken,...
at the southeast end of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Third Officer Walter Slossarczyk, communications officer on the Deutschland during the German Antarctic Expedition under Filchner until his death in South Georgia on November 26, 1911. Filchner had named the present Doubtful Bay for Slossarczyk, but the earlier naming did not survive.