Ems Rock () is a rock midway between

Harrison Point ''For the point in Barbados, see Harrison Point, Barbados'' Harrison Point is a point marked by a string of off-lying rocks, lying west of Busen Point on the south side of Stromness Bay, South Georgia. It was charted in 1927 by Discovery Invest ...

and

Busen Point Busen Point or Busen Peninsula () is a headland forming the southeast side of the entrance to Stromness Bay, on the north coast of South Georgia. It lies on the Lewin Peninsula between Cumberland West Bay and Stromness Bay.Bicheno, Hugh (2006) ''R ...

in the south part of

Stromness Bay Stromness Bay is a bay wide, entered between Cape Saunders and Busen Point on the north coast of South Georgia. Stromness Bay, like Leith Harbour takes its name from a location in Scotland, Stromness, on the Orkney Mainland. This is partia ...

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� ...

. It was charted by

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, wh ...

personnel under Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin in 1927 and 1929, and was named in 1957 by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

for the sailing vessel ''Ems'', owned by the Tonsberg Hvalfangeri,

Husvik Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour. Husvik initially began as a floating, offshore factory sit ...

, located at the head of

Husvik Harbour Husvik is a former whaling station on the north-central coast of South Georgia Island. It was one of three such stations in Stromness Bay, the other two being Stromness and Leith Harbour. Husvik initially began as a floating, offshore factory site ...

in Stromness Bay.

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Rock formations of South Georgia {{SouthGeorgia-geo-stub