Stories of interest about the cemeteries, burial, memorials of South Georgia.
December 2025 Thanks to Bob Headland, who has found some correspondence between the Magistrate and Station Manager at Leith from 1919. This includes a map showing who is buried in all eight graves in the older cemetery in the middle of Leith station. At the time the station was located in the river plain to
New Information on the Leith (old/town/Jericho) Cemetery Read More »
The South Georgia Museum’s Whalers’ Memory Bank Project has unearthed a new photograph from the collection donated by the family of Jock Murray.
New Photograph of Alex McNair’s 1960 Leith Funeral Read More »
The Hope Point memorial cross, erected by Shackleton‘s men when he died on South Georgia in 1916, was removed in 2019 as it was showing signs of rot. Once it was deemed beyond repair, a replacement was put in place, with the cairn being rebuilt to look more like its original form – It had
Hope Point Memorial Cross on Display in Dundee Read More »
In 2016 a team from King Edward Point refurbished the Cemetery at Ocean Harbour whaling station. The GSGSSI building team made some new crosses to replicate the rotten and broken remains of the old ones. The GSGSSI and BAS staff delivered them by government launch, and put them in place. You can read more about
Refurbishing the Ocean Harbour Cemetery in 2016 Read More »
In March 2018, during the SGHT Rodent Monitoring project that completed the eradication project, a visit to Prince Olav Harbour enabled the replica grave marker for John Anderson’s grave on pig point to be placed in the correct position. The replica had been placed a few metres away due to fur seal activity at the
John Anderson grave marker placement Read More »
Thanks to a relative for a photograph of the youngest daughter of James Hutchison, to add to the family photograph taken before she was born.
Photograph of James Hutchison’s daughter Read More »
The ashes of Dr Peter Barker were scattered off Hope Point by his wife Jenny on 5 November 2015. They joined the seas that he had dedicated so much of his life to studying.
Ashes of Dr Peter Barker Read More »