🪓 Storer Reef

United Kingdom · Europe · 54.37°S, 37.07°W

Storer Reef is an isolated reef lying 3 nautical miles (6 km) southeast of Aspasia Point and 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) off the south coast of South Georgia. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) following mapping by the SGS, 1951–52, for Captain Nathaniel Storer of New Haven, CT, who in 1801, built a small schooner on the coast of Patagonia, sailed her to South Georgia, and spent two seasons taking 45,000 fur seal skins.

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Quick facts

Country	United Kingdom
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	54.37°S, 37.07°W · view on map

Storer Reef is located in United Kingdom, in Europe.

More reefs in United Kingdom

Bishops and Clerks · Black Middens · Bloor Reef · Craigmaroinn · Cribbar · Hammerstad Reef · Hand Deeps · Hasselwood Rock · Hauge Reef · Helen's Reef.

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