Ducloz Head

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Ducloz Head (54°31′S, 36°39′W) is a headland which forms the northwest side of the entrance to Undine South Harbour on the south coast of South Georgia. First charted in 1819 by a Russian expedition under Bellingshausen. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC), following a survey by the South Georgia Survey, 1951-52, for Le Sieur Ducloz Guyot, a passenger in the Spanish vessel Leon, which sighted South Georgia in 1756.

During the fifties, Duncan Carse, for whom Mount Carse was named, surveyed various inland areas of South Georgia. He negotiated a rent of a shilling per annum for four hectares of land at Ducloz Head, and paid ten years rent in advance. In 23rd February, 1961, Carse was dropped off by HMS Owen with 12 tonnes of supplies, and a prefabricated hut. He was revisited in April, but it was on the 20th May that a freak wave washed him, his hut and his supplies into the sea. He managed to survive the Southern Winter for another 116 days, when he was rescued by a sealing ship.

This article incorporates text from Ducloz Head, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.