Greene Inlet () is an inlet immediately northwest of
Cape Paryadin
Cape Paryadin () is a headland which forms the southernmost point of the west tip of South Georgia. It was discovered in 1775 by a British expedition under James Cook. The cape was resighted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen B ...
at the west end 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 "Deep Inlet" was probably given by Lieutenant Commander
J.M. Chaplin,
Royal Navy
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, of the
''Discovery'', during his survey of the
Undine Harbour
''You may be looking for Undine South Harbour near Ducloz Head, South Georgia''
Undine Harbour is a small bay at the head of the embayment between Cape Paryadin and Cape Chaplin on the south coast of South Georgia. This feature (with Johan Harb ...
area in 1926 but it is not used locally. The
South Georgia Survey
The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957.
Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of t ...
, 1951–52, reported that the feature requires a name, but that Deep Inlet is not sufficiently distinctive, being descriptive of so many features at South Georgia. Greene Inlet is named for
Daniel Greene of
New Haven, CT
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, who in 1790 commanded one of the first two American sealing vessels to visit South Georgia.
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References
Inlets of Antarctica
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