Cape Carysfort

Cape Carysfort is a headland in the north east of East Falkland between Macbride Head and Volunteer Point. is behind it. In 1921 it was the site of the shipwreck of SS Guvernøren, a whale oil tanker which, under its former name SS Imo, had been involved in the massive 1917 explosion that caused severe damage to Halifax Nova Scotia.^[1]^[2]

The Spanish name for the cape is Cabo Corrientes.^[3]

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^ "Falkland Stamps!". Falklands Philatelic Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ "Imo". Ships of the Halifax Explosion. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. 18 Feb 2009. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
^ Jorge G. Fernandez (1969), H-411 Islas Malvinas (Isla Soledad), Buenos Aires: Servicio Hidrografia Naval de la Sectretaria de Marina, retrieved 2017-06-26

Coordinates: 51°24′50″S 57°51′14″W / 51.4138°S 57.8540°W / -51.4138; -57.8540

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[1] "Falkland Stamps!". Falklands Philatelic Bureau. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-10. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[Maritime_Museum_of_the_Atlantic-2] "Imo". Ships of the Halifax Explosion. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. 18 Feb 2009. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

[3] Jorge G. Fernandez (1969), H-411 Islas Malvinas (Isla Soledad), Buenos Aires: Servicio Hidrografia Naval de la Sectretaria de Marina, retrieved 2017-06-26

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