Anthony de la Roché
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Anthony de la Roché was a 17th-century English maritime explorer and merchant, born in London to a French Huguenot father and an English mother, who took part in a joint venture established by English
Chiloé Island
17th-century merchantman
Drygalski Fjord, a possible place of La Roché's stay in South Georgia
Various reckonings of the Tordesillas line according to Henry Harrisse, all of them running west of the meridian 42°20'W and thus west of South Georgia and Gough, potentially leaving both islands to Portugal
South Georgia
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South Georgia 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 1,400 kilometres east of the Falkl
Anthony de la Roché
…lucrative New World trade. During a commercial voyage between Europe and South America he was blown off course in Drake Passage, visited the island of South Georgia and sighted Clerke Rocks in 1675, thereby making the first discovery of land in the Antarctic. In doing so he crossed the Antarctic Convergence, a…
South Georgia passport entry stamp, issued by the Post Office in Grytviken 1984
Church at Grytviken
Snowy sheathbill in nest