Cape Darnley (South Georgia)
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Cape Darnley () is a cape at the southeast side of Jacobsen Bight on the south-central coast of
South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east†...
. The name dates back to about 1920 and was given for E.R. Darnley of the
Colonial Office The Colonial Office was a government department of the Kingdom of Great Britain and later of the United Kingdom, first created to deal with the colonial affairs of British North America but required also to oversee the increasing number of col ...
, Chairman of the
Discovery Committee The Discovery Committee was a popular name for the Interdepartmental Committee for the Dependencies of the Falkland Islands established by the British Government to carry out scientific investigations (which became known as ‘Discovery Investigati ...
from 1923 to 1933.


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* Headlands of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub