Mount Regulator

Mount Regulator

Mount Regulator (54°0′S 37°44′W / 54°S 37.733°W / -54; -37.733) is a mountain, 655 m, standing 1 nautical mile (1.9 km) west of Right Whale Bay on the north side of South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for the Regulator. In 1800, Edmund Fanning found a deserted hut in Right Whale Bay, built by the crew of the Regulator which had been wrecked in the vicinity.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Regulator" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).



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